noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gain notoriety (= become famous, especially for doing something bad )
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He gained notoriety as the author of a controversial novel.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
achieve
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He achieved notoriety in the first final by turning up ten minutes late for the start.
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This bloody action-comedy achieved notoriety because writer / director Robert Rodriguez made the film without studio help on a minuscule budget.
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For nearly 300 years it achieved notoriety for its private madhouses.
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This question has achieved some notoriety in two cases concerning telephone tapping.
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Some slogans achieve notoriety for being inappropriate, and are swiftly proved as such by events.
gain
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Nilsen gained notoriety a decade ago at the so-called house of horror in North London.
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And others will gain notoriety for how fiercely wild their machinery is.
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The only reason we did it was to gain notoriety .
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And it gained some notoriety for obduracy on female sufferance while the rest of the developed world was gradually seeing sense.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Salem's tourist industry plays on its notoriety for the witchcraft trials.
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Stewart, the new quarterback from Colorado, has gained a lot of notoriety for his versatility.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, more importantly, so did the notoriety .
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As a forest justice he earned some notoriety .
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Howandever, didn't Imelda take it into her head that she and Franklyn were on the brink of notoriety ?
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In a bid for public notoriety , the bomber criticized the news blackout of his campaign.
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No further fuel should be added to his notoriety .
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Thereafter, Bourke enjoyed the notoriety of his escapades and even wrote a book about them.
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This bloody action-comedy achieved notoriety because writer / director Robert Rodriguez made the film without studio help on a minuscule budget.