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famous | American Dictionary

famous
adjective
us/ˈfeɪ·məs/
known by very many or most people:
a famous actor/singer
Marie Curie is famous for discovering radium.

Examples of famous

famous
His proposals are famous for their strength, clarity, and falsifiability.
Initiates pored over the book's photographs of famous ancestors, getting me to translate passages, which were then discussed and criticised.
Exciting dreams are dreamed as one remembers famous players who began that way.
The township was famous for its horse fair and was situated at an important crossroads.
They indeed provided some famous examples of biological invasions which had a catastrophic impact on local biodiversity, leading to the extinction of local species.
Then it gives a detailed description of the various kinds of vowel-length alternations and the famous phenomenon of vowel harmony.
Tell us about your famous work on repeated games.
Judges declined to believe the famous dying declaration.
Among the notes constituting the framework are the famous blue notes, and my explanation of the blues mode must begin by defining them.
He also hopes that the text will inspire more historical research into the lifestyle of famous jazz musicians.
None is dominated by a famous-name composer, and few address music that will be familiar to any but a handful of scholars.
Why hire a famous actor to sing a song, when another performer will do it cheaper?
We will try to explain and establish this point by revisiting a famous counterlibertarian argument.
In this paper we look at a case where the dementia of a famous author figures in the tributes at her death.
The famous moon illusion does not make the moon illusory.
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