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Snooker clubs were enjoying a boom, but they often remained places of ill repute, and Virgo recognised there was historical justification for that.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

An opera company’s stature, and even an art capital’s cultural repute, can rise or fall depending upon its ability to mount a “Ring” cycle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024

Having been thoroughly Islamized, Ghana began to produce Muslim scholars, lawyers, and Quran readers of some repute, many traveling to Islamic Spain to study or going on pilgrimage to Mecca.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Open-city proponent, former city councilman, lawyer noted for defending houses of ill repute, casually smoked a corncob pipe.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

She knew that London was a large, bustling, and confusing city, and that one wrong turn might send them wandering down dark cobblestone streets that dead-ended at smelly slaughterhouses and riverfront establishments of ill repute.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he; I shoot thee at the swain.

From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

Nobody reputes him to steal, an' I don't say he do.

From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable

I daresay that other great London physicians, whom the world reputes worldly, often do similar charities by stealth.

From Willing to Die by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

For the Fathers were but men, and to speak the truth, their reputes and authorities did undervalue and suppress the books and writings of the sacred Apostles of Christ.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yass, seh," Cornelius was tipsily remarking, "the journals o' the day reputes me to have absawb some paucity o' the school funds.

From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable

The night ended with the skies being lit up by the reputed largest fireworks display ever in the US.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

The deposit, reputed to be the largest in Africa, is one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's hidden treasures -- which are at the centre of a global race for critical minerals.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

At Le Beccherie, the dessert’s reputed birthplace, chef Manuel Gobbo explains how hard it is for a local to make the perfect version because “everyone has a memory of how their mother made tiramisu.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and his Spanish conquistadors had marched many miles through the desert in search of the reputed Seven Cities of Gold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

She was reputed to be able to understand the serpent, which offered her shavings from its horn as the core of the first ever American-made wand.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

Whereby apeareth, how he esteemed learning, and what felicity he putte therin, reputing al the worlde saue him selfe to be inferiour to Diogenes.

From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Robert Record

Ouer his kinred, hee held a warie and charie care, which bountifully was expressed, when occasion so required, reputing himselfe, not onely principall of the family, but a generall father to them all.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

The friar now perceiving that Ser Ciappelletto had nothing more to say, gave him absolution and his blessing, reputing him for a most holy man, fully believing that all that he had said was true.

From The Decameron, Volume I by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg