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cause célèbre
[ kawz suh-leb-ruh, -leb; French kohz sey-leb-ruh ]
noun
- any controversy that attracts great public attention, as a celebrated legal case or trial.
cause célèbre
/ koz selɛbrə; ˈkɔːz səˈlɛbrə; -ˈlɛb /
noun
- a famous lawsuit, trial, or controversy
cause célèbre
- A cause or issue, generally political, that arouses public opinion: “The question of the draft was a cause célèbre in the 1960s.” From French, meaning “celebrated cause.”
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Example Sentences
As celebrities on the movie promotion circuit are wont to do, Cameron Diaz is hawking her latest cause celebre.
In his first term, Obama made the settlements something of a cause celebre.
She was this cause celebre, this major novelist, like better than Updike.
Rains kept silent about her dismissal even as the case became a cause celebre around her.
Then came the cause celebre, as it may be called, of the day, the trial of Xenophon himself.
Within twenty-four hours the Iams case became a National cause celebre.
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