famously
Britishadverb
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well-known
her famously relaxed manner
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very well
the two got on famously
Example Sentences
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Despite leading baseball with a cash payroll of around $360 million, the Mets have been a complete disaster, even by their famously low standards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Yes, budgets can be boring, especially to a president with a famously short attention span.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The famously progressive school doesn’t use letter grades or GPA.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Likewise seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, whose father Anthony famously worked as many as four jobs at a time to fund his son's early career before he was picked up by McLaren aged 11.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
“You know how there is famously no place less played in than a hospital playground?”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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