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cause celebre

NOUN
  1. an incident that attracts great public attention

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  • Labanino, 46, is one of the Cuban Five, who have become a cause celebre in their homeland, daily lauded by the Cuban government for what it calls their heroism in purportedly helping derail attacks against the communist isle. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • The act of censorship turned the film into a cause célèbre, with Warren Beatty, among others, championing it.
  • During his detention, he became a cause célèbre among tech activists, who held large protests outside the offices until shamefaced executives dropped their complaint against him.
  • The unsolved murder became a cause célèbre in Northern Ireland.
  • 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.
  • 100 years ago: A former tinner from Scarborough, who became a national cause celebre after he stole a turnip from a field whilst desperately poor, was in the news again.
  • Civil liberties groups try periodically to make internment a cause célèbre, but find few takers.
  • His early work, especially the cause célèbre "The Elementary Particles," is really less a novel than a treatise on biological determinism, full of ex cathedra pronouncements about the bestiality of human nature and showy pornography meant to illustrate man's mindless, insect-like urge to copulate. Reflections on Self-Regard
  • Labanino, 46, is one of the Cuban Five, who have become a cause celebre in their homeland, daily lauded by the government for what it calls their heroism in purportedly helping derail attacks against the communist isle. Raw Story
  • But, what's annoying is the notion of Williams as some new racial cause célèbre, that his case was a multimedia Rodney King beat down by a bad blue NPR getting happy with microphone nightsticks. Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre'
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