famously
IPA: fˈeɪmʌsɫi
adverb
- In a celebrated manner.
- Indicates that the act, state, or occurrence described by the sentence is famous In such a manner as to become famous or produce something that would become famous.
- (informal) Really well, having great rapport.
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Examples of "famously" in Sentences
- Wittgenstein famously admonished us not to mistake the map for the territory.
- The phrase famously serves as the second epigraph to T.S. Eliot's 1927 meditation on despair, "The Hollow Men."
- The label famously turned down the chance to sign the Fab Four in 1962, pronouncing that guitar bands were going out of fashion.
- Boies made his name famously defending IBM against the Justice Department and then later helping the Justice Department prosecute Microsoft.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein famously insisted at the end of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
- Yet, to use a term famously employed once by then-United Nations Ambassador Madeleine Albright, who was upset with the Cubans, Richardson does have cojones.
- He accused Mr Cameron of giving in to the "bastards", the word famously used by John Major to describe those who had attempted to undermine his pro-European stance in the 1990s.
- Depending on how far you want to take it, logical positivism forms the basis for most 20th-Cen scientific thought; when asked what time was, Einstein famously replied “Time is what clocks measure”.
- McDonnell is scrambling to put the issue behind him, lest it become his "macaca" -- the term famously used by Allen to describe a young man of Indian descent at a campaign event when he was running for reelection to the U.S. S.nate in 2006.
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