The phrase "a reputation now" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's current standing or perception in a particular context or situation.
Example: "After years of hard work, she has built a reputation now as a leading expert in her field."
Alternatives: "a current reputation" or "an established reputation".
For a country that has not entirely shaken a reputation, now undeserved, for dreadful food, the cluster of stars in Ludlow is a phenomenon worth exploring.
This is a major score for the touchy-feely team in the Parent Wars that boil under the surface of so much forcedly polite brunch table interaction (Do you breast-feed? How much? Where? Reject all trans fats? Brush your hair? Ever?) I have a reputation now for being against breast-feeding, pro-separation, pro-makeup and pretty mean-spirited, generally.
Vungle was created by two young Brits, Zain Jaffer and Jack Smith, who have a reputation now as something of hustlers.
Heard, Slatten, Liberty, and Slough worked for Blackwater, a private company with a complex reputation (now known as Academi, following a sale and an earlier rebranding as Xe Services) which was largely staffed by former members of the U.S. military, and which was contracted, at great taxpayer expense, to undertake missions that our all-volunteer military no longer wishes to, or cannot, perform.
"We've got a national reputation now for taking on hard problems, but companies are waiting to see if Wisconsin is going to be able to make this stick".
It's got a crappy reputation now, but it stems from the values of original club culture: respect, being positive, communal unity.
And despite a somewhat tarnished reputation, now even President Bush has admitted the decision to go to war was based on flawed intelligence, Ms Rice has continued to outshine colleagues.
Kutiman has a well-established reputation now, but it's interesting to note that back in 2009, with the release of ThruYou, one of the first to champion his work was none other than Lessig, who described it as "everything and more that I try to describe in my book," a way to recognise that we "need new ideas" when it comes to the regulation of remix/mash-up culture in the networked world.
"Metal Machine Music" has a much better reputation now than at its release.
If Johnson's roving saunas are as unlikely to fascinate non-Londoners as they are Mr Johnson, given he is a cyclist with no reputation now worth losing, the huge gap between the sweaty hell of these vehicles and their comical overselling, should maybe focus minds on another mayoral first, his "garden bridge".
Following their South Bank gigs at the EFG London jazz festival last year and appearance on the Andrew Marr show, New York goodtime-jazz outfit Hot Sardines are back in May for a UK tour – with their reputation now preceding them so fast that an extra performance has been added to their 16 May gig at the Bath festival.
