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[ adjective ] widely known and esteemed

Examples

"a famous actor" "a celebrated musician" "a famed scientist" "an illustrious judge" "a notable historian" "a renowned painter"

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[ adjective ] widely known and esteemed

Examples

"a famous actor" "a celebrated musician" "a famed scientist" "an illustrious judge" "a notable historian" "a renowned painter"

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

The famed Yankee_Clipper , now retired , has been assisting as a batting_coach .

(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)

For_one_thing , although considerable numbers of men have been trained , bureaucracies are still deficient in many respects ; even the famed Indian_Civil_Service is not fully adequate_to the tremendous range of tasks it has undertaken .

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