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person of note



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It’s so rare anymore that a person of note arrives in this city, jumps right in and, before he even does what he’s been hired to do, makes a little splash.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2023

Even as a person of note, with a name, I would never go into a hospital by myself.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2022

But given that states can select any person of note from their state, surely there are many other men or women who don’t have the Confederacy on their résumés.

From Washington Times • Jun. 24, 2020

Stipulations include that the person of note must have been dead for at least 20 years to allow for a "retrospective examination" of their life's works.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2018

As history does not inform us of any other person of note of this name, a native of Nice in Bithynia, it is highly probable that this was the Hipparchus, the astronomer and geographer.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by Stevenson, William