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trusted and respected (having a good reputation)
- I am unable to understand the attention you received in all the reputable academic magazines and how they could permit themselves to discuss your book seriously.2.1 Part 2 Chapter 1 — The Man Who Belonged on Earth (21% in)
- It was a small, grimy place, disreputable with age, battered by years of a losing struggle; above its entrance gate, like a new flag on the mast of a derelict, hung the sign: d'Anconia Copper.1.5 Part 1 Chapter 5 — The Climax of the D'Anconias (58% in)
- Then there followed the days and nights of searching a continent by phone, by wire, by plane-of looking at abandoned mines and at mines ready to be abandoned-of tense, rushed conferences held at tables hi the unlighted corners of disreputable restaurants.1.10 Part 1 Chapter 10 — Wyatt's Torch (22% in)
- It was all right for a disreputable mediocrity like Simon Pritchett to drool it as some sort of woozy mysticism-nobody listened to him.2.1 Part 2 Chapter 1 — The Man Who Belonged on Earth (18% in)
There are no more uses of "reputable" in Atlas Shrugged.
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