Similar words: celebrate, celebrity, celebrated, celebration, celebratory, decelerate, deceleration, cause. Meaning: n. an incident that attracts great public attention.
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1, The Kravchenko trial became a cause celebre in Paris and internationally.
2, It has become a cause celebre for some moviegoers who are tired of big-budget genre movies.
3, The trial of John Peter Zenger, a cause celebre in the eighteenth century, helped to establish freedom of the press in America.
4, A key figure in this cause celebre, he chose to hide away and keep his mouth shut.
5, After the execution, the case became a cause celebre for the Flemish extreme right.
6, The death of anti-fascist activist Blair Peach during a protest in 1979 has always been a cause celebre for campaigners against police use of excessive force.
7, Italy's politicians have said they will create new right-to-die laws, as the country absorbs the death of a woman whose case became a cause celebre.
8, But for 18-year-old Constance McMillen, a milestone was reached sooner than she had anticipated when she emerged as a cause celebre among gay rights advocates around the nation.
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