notoriously

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Nearly 2.28 million candidates sat the exam on 3 May, having studied for months - in some cases years - for the notoriously difficult paper.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2026

While older workers do not necessarily lose their jobs more frequently than their younger peers, the road back to employment is notoriously much harder.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 19, 2026

And any population-wide studies into this kind of thing are notoriously difficult to design.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026

Fujimori was thrust into Peru’s notoriously messy politics in 1994 at age 19.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Physicists are notoriously scornful of scientists from other fields.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson