notoriety
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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
Conditions there have prompted outcry from rights groups, and UN experts have condemned it as a site of "unparalleled notoriety."
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Venegas clearly loves these spaces and history, whether based in real life or in notoriety.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
The notoriety of the Nobel, he felt, only increased the intensity of attacks from his public enemies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Despite the notoriety Tobias now has among the Dauntless, and my new ti&e as That Girl Who Stabbed Eric, we are not the real focus of everyone’s attention.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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He seems to me abnormally lacking in personal ambition,—does not seem to care whether he is heard of or not,—has a sort of contempt for the little neighborhood notorieties which give most men pleasure.
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
One met beauty as well as brains; wealth as well as wit; and quite as many colourless nonentities as notorieties of every hue.
From My Lord Duke by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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 Abercrombie, Lascelles
Beauties there were too, past, present, and some, coming; a fair share of the notorieties of fashion, and the last winner of the Derby, with—let me not forget him—a Quarterly Reviewer.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
America has shaken down more eminencies into notorieties than any other country in the world—it is a severe and terrible ordeal for great foreigners.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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