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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Those vibes must have transitive properties: On a recent morning in a borrowed backyard in Santa Monica, the vibes were as impeccable as one of the actor’s famously natty red-carpet looks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
His training sessions are famously more intense than the matches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Throughout his career, Rafael Nadal was famously a man of few words.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
In terms of fielding performance by the team, it is hard to quantify other than via the percentage of dropped catches - though Stokes' teams famously hunted down even lost causes to the boundary.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
I ask whether Skeeter is still in touch with Harry Potter, whom she so famously interviewed last year: a breakthrough piece in which Potter spoke exclusively of his conviction that You-Know-Who had returned.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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