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Recent Examples of infamous After a tumultuous college career that included an infamous hit on CU’s Travis Hunter in the 2023 Rocky Mountain Showdown — and subsequent peacemaking — Blackburn will have an opportunity to continue a Colorado journey that began at Boulder’s Fairview High. Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 May 2025 Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, centers on a daring 1962 escape by inmates Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin. Scott Neuman, NPR, 7 May 2025 Ovidio Guzmán López, one of four sons of the infamous Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo, plans to plead guilty this summer to sprawling federal drug charges, according to court papers filed on Tuesday. Alan Feuer, New York Times, 7 May 2025 For the second year in a row, Mayor Quinton Lucas blocked the measure to change the infamous street’s name, proposing that the measure be placed on indefinite hold so officials can study the issue more and consider other possible names. Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for infamous
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notorious
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  • In July 2022, more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in an explosion at the notorious camp at Olenivka, adding a desperate sense of urgency to the Ukrainian efforts to bring the rest of them home.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 16 May 2025
  • The Lorraine Motel, before and after The 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made the Lorraine Motel in Memphis globally notorious.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025

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“Infamous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infamous. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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