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Notable For: Standard Pattern

Notable For: Standard Pattern records a directly documented English construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced pattern rather than turning one attested complement into a universal prohibition.

Quick answer

Use “notable for” when pointing out a quality, feature, or fact that makes someone or something worthy of attention.

Key details

Confusion Familyusage-construction
Rule Familyadjective or complement construction
Termsnotable for

Further guidance

Construction

Use “notable for” when pointing out a quality, feature, or fact that makes someone or something worthy of attention.

Style Boundary

This page records the directly evidenced “for” complement and does not claim that all uses of “notable” require an explicit complement.

Sources and evidence

Sources are shown with the role they play in this guide. Historical or style-sensitive claims are kept within the evidence boundary described above.

  1. NOTABLE | English meaning — Cambridge Dictionary (opens in a new tab)Cambridge University Press · Direct Cambridge dictionary evidence for the construction “notable for” when naming a distinguishing quality or fact.

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