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cause célèbre

[ kawz suh-leb-ruh, -leb; French kohz sey-leb-ruh ]

noun

plural causes célèbres
  1. any controversy that attracts great public attention, as a celebrated legal case or trial.


cause célèbre

/ koz selɛbrə; ˈkɔːz səˈlɛbrə; -ˈlɛb /

noun

  1. a famous lawsuit, trial, or controversy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cause célèbre

  1. 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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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of cause célèbre1

First recorded in 1755–65; from French: literally, “famous case”
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of cause célèbre1

C19: from French: famous case
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If you'll recall it was the cause celebre of the 2021 Virginia governor's race which had all the DC tongues wagging about the resurgence of the right-wing culture war.

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By that fall, Drakeo had become a cause célèbre.

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“To protect smelt from water pumps, government regulators have flushed 1.4 trillion gallons of water into the San Francisco Bay since 2008,” the Wall Street Journal reported in a spectacularly uninformed column in 2015 that libeled the fish as “the cause célèbre of environmentalists and bête noire of parched farmers.”

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Daniel Penny, who became a conservative cause celebre, was pictured attending the Army v Navy American football game near Washington DC with Trump and Vice-President-elect JD Vance.

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Not surprisingly, the grave miscarriage of justice in his case has attracted national and international attention and made it a cause célèbre for people opposed to the death penalty and many supporters of capital punishment.

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