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notability

[noh-tuh-bil-i-tee] / ˌnoʊ təˈbɪl ɪ ti /




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However, not everyone is pleased by the new development, notability retired RAF engineer Steve McGranaghan, who lives opposite the units.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024

Likewise, other members who ranked in the top 10% of notability became 35% more notable by dying at age 27, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Regardless, it’s clear these singers encountered something profound — a reality better than the riches, stardom and notability they had come to know.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2023

Finally, there’s the issue of Wikipedia’s notability guideline—the principle that only topics that are truly “worthy of notice” should be included on the encyclopedia.

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2023

Hollister, sitting at her side, nonchalant, handsome, of excellent conventional style in garb and posture, materially helped to increase the notability which surrounded her.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

To visit the New York showroom is to court the possibility of rubbing shoulders with many notabilities of rank and fashion .

From Time Magazine Archive

The Queen, accompanied by the Prince Consort, walked in procession through the immense aggregation of treasures, followed by an imposing array of eminent British and foreign notabilities.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

Would you like to realize a dream of some magnificent pageant, in which the great notabilities of all the earth take a share?

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

I got back to Oxford just in time for the festival dinner of the Canning and Chatham Clubs, at which my old schoolfellow Alfred Lyttelton, Hugh Cecil, and other Tory notabilities, were guests.

From A New Medley of Memories by David Hunter-Blair

All the authorities and notabilities of the country were present.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer


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