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
It will be brave, however, to stick with Rosenior if his messaging is not getting across to the players - with Chelsea supporters famously impatient given the hiring and firing under previous owner Roman Abramovich.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Sheen won an Emmy for Most Outstanding Personality and in his acceptance speech famously thanked his writers, “Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.”
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
The insight was precocious, anticipating as it did the distinction between history as experienced and history as remembered, most famously depicted in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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