notoriety
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The duo gained further notoriety with hits “Can’t Hold Us” and same-sex marriage anthem “Same Love.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
But that hasn’t stopped him from using his notoriety to sell merch and pump his $CHUD scamcoin while winking to his online flock.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The case's notoriety still follows Knox; since Kercher's death, Knox has written two books about her imprisonment and served as an executive producer on the biographical drama The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Controversies such as a 2002 autopsy performed in London -- on camera and before an audience —- further fuelled his notoriety.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
However, Virginia’s legacy as the birthplace of humanity’s first step into the heavens would have to compete with the notoriety it was gaining as the country’s most intransigent foe of integrated schools.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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You see, Beriah is one of our South Denboro notorieties; he’s famous in his way.
From Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Hate is the high commander of so many armies that an inquiry into the origin of this passion is at least as needful as histories of other contemporary notorieties.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell
Mr. Perry's search for notorieties took him also to Scotland, and, oddly enough, Prince Wolfburgh's search for amusement led him in the same direction.
From Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Harding Davis
The notabilities and even the simple notorieties of the day brought each other freely to that temple of an old woman’s not ignoble curiosity.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
But evidently success in these cases was due to the exceptional and fortunate fact that the fixed notorieties of history were combined with a strange and mysterious geography.
From The Epic An Essay by Lascelles Abercrombie
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