infamous

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Before Putin confidant Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Group turned against Mr. Putin in their infamous mutiny of June 2023, Prigozhin took to Telegram to denounce Russia’s generals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

However, perhaps the most iconic element in the space is the infamous “rotating closet” that Hannah was regularly seen using in the series.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Israel has only executed two people in its history - one of them the infamous Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, who played an important role in perpetrating the Holocaust.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Perhaps most infamous: the 1997 segment where a child portrayed by a pre–Sixth Sense Haley Joel Osment reveals to another character that “Walker told me I have AIDS.”

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

In my junior year of high school, me and three of my close friends began to hold the meetings of what would soon become the infamous Geek Club.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz