well-known person
Example Sentences
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One well-known person who has said he was diagnosed with breast cancer and has the BRCA2 mutation is Matthew Knowles, Beyoncé’s father.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025
Others question what the parameters are for judging whether someone should be blocked — and what would constitute a well-known person speaking out or doing enough.
From Seattle Times • May 14, 2024
OK, I’ll admit I found this moving, an example of a well-known person putting the public good over the private good, at some financial cost to himself.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023
Even an unsolicited email to a well-known person whose work you admire may bring good advice on colleges, since such people like being listened to by the young.
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2022
The baronet intended is Sir Roger Bradshaigh, of Haigh; a very well-known person, whose funeral sermon was preached by Wroe, the warden of Manchester Collegiate Church, locally remembered as "silver-mouthed Wroe."
From Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 by Various
