as in legendary
having an interesting history
A movie that provides a fawning portrayal of the storied leader.
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Recent Examples of storied
Big Sur and the storied Highway 1 Steinbeck experienced Big Sur before Route 1 was even built, working as part of the first surveying crew in the area, pre-construction.
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Alexandra Genova, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2026
Jaquez’s brother, Jaime, who was in attendance for the championship game, also had a storied career at UCLA and went on to be drafted 18th overall in the first round of the 2023 NBA Draft by the Miami Heat.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
Fathoms is the latest in a string of synth albums the composer has made under his own name since 2022, and his first since relocating from Portland to the storied town of Salzburg, Austria.
—Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 6 Apr. 2026
La Jolla’s Chase Bank branch on Girard Avenue, which has a storied recent history, is undergoing remodeling.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
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Alexandra Genova, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2026
Jaquez’s brother, Jaime, who was in attendance for the championship game, also had a storied career at UCLA and went on to be drafted 18th overall in the first round of the 2023 NBA Draft by the Miami Heat.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
Fathoms is the latest in a string of synth albums the composer has made under his own name since 2022, and his first since relocating from Portland to the storied town of Salzburg, Austria.
—Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 6 Apr. 2026
La Jolla’s Chase Bank branch on Girard Avenue, which has a storied recent history, is undergoing remodeling.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
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His journey to becoming a businessman, father, adventurer, esteemed surfboard shaper, and legendary surfer – he was featured on the cover of Surfer magazine in 1962 and has a spot on Surfing Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach – began as a student at the University of South Dakota.—
Michelle Breier,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2026
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As a reluctant child of the Ain’t it Cool News era, the Drafthouse had long assumed some kind of legendary status in my mind.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2026
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But the most important sighting of the mythical Stravinskian fowl might be the revival of Dance Theatre of Harlem’s 1982 version, migrating back to New York for the first time in more than twenty years.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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The poem tells the story of the seduction of a sixteen-year-old girl by the watermonster, a mythical figure, weaving together themes of place, identity, trauma, and transformation.—
Patrick Dundon,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Apr. 2026
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Until the 1990s, many of New Orleans' famed Mardi Gras krewes were segregated.—
Bill Whitaker,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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The famed African American journalist investigated lynchings across the South and wrote about the savage incidents that the white press had already explained away.—
Case Thorp,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Storied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/storied. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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