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Noted For: Standard Pattern

Noted 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 “noted for” to identify the quality, achievement, feature, or fact for which someone or something is especially known.

Key details

Confusion Familyusage-construction
Rule Familyadjective or complement construction
Termsnoted for

Further guidance

Construction

Use “noted for” to identify the quality, achievement, feature, or fact for which someone or something is especially known.

Style Boundary

This page covers the documented “noted for” construction; it does not treat every use of “noted” as requiring a for-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. NOTED | English meaning — Cambridge Dictionary (opens in a new tab)Cambridge University Press · Direct Cambridge dictionary evidence for “noted for” when identifying what a person, place, or thing is known for.

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