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Only since the advent of blogs and social media, however, have average Janes been transformed into viral causes célèbres overnight.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2018

Over the next few decades the Scottsboro Boys, as they were known, became causes célèbres of the civil rights movement—their case twice advanced to the Supreme Court.

From Time • Jun. 26, 2015

As word of their case spread abroad, they fast became international causes célèbres, gathering support from human rights groups and musicians including Bjork, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Patti Smith and Pete Townshend.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2014

There are few cases in the long list of French causes célèbres more remarkable than that of the alleged Martin Guerre.

From Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

In doing so I should only copy, or, at any rate, might copy, the proceedings at some of those modern causes célèbres with which all those who love such subjects are familiar.

From The Three Clerks by Trollope, Anthony