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causes célèbres

causes célèbres is the plural of cause célèbre.

Meaning of cause célèbre

Noun

cause célèbre (plural causes célèbres)

  1. (UK) An issue or incident (originally, a legal case) arousing widespread controversy or public debate.
    • Getting iced out by the tech giants turned Parler into a cause célèbre for conservatives who complained they were being censored, as well as a test case for the openness of the internet.2021 February 15, Jack Nicas, “Parler, a Social Network That Attracted Trump Fans, Returns Online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2021

Questions about causes célèbres

What is causes célèbres the plural of?
Causes célèbres is the plural of cause célèbre.

Words near causes célèbres in the dictionary

  1. causeries
  2. causers
  3. causes
  4. causes a stir
  5. causes and effects
  6. causes célèbres
  7. causes of action
  8. causes of death
  9. causest
  10. causet
  11. causeth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: causes célèbres (page history and authors); cause célèbre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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