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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Warren Buffett in 2001 famously said that comparing the stock market’s value to GDP was one of his favorite rules of thumb for working out whether it was overvalued or undervalued.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett and the late Vice Chairman Charlie Munger famously regretted their decision to buy a department store.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
In a 2016 speech, the former intelligence chief famously said James Bond, the fictional spy, would not pass the agency's recruitment process.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Even as Lotus built icons like Esprit, which famously turned into a submarine in the 1977 James Bond film “The Spy Who Loved Me,” it often teetered on the brink of disaster.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Then there was monkey-faced Hanuman, the trickster who had famously helped the god Rama in his fight against the demon king.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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