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[uh-wawrd] / əˈwɔrd /




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Additional support came through a 2015 Fusion Energy Sciences Early Career Award, a 2018 Diagnostic Innovation and Development award, and the 2021 and 2025 Long-Pulse Tokamak Research Programs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The last thing the award to Navi Pillay will do is promote the cause of peace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Amnesty International Secretary-General Agnès Callamard said she was with Pillay when she learned she had won - and called her an "inspired choice" for the award.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

His announcement came hours before Trump was due to award Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the most prestigious US technology medal at a ceremony in Washington.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

“This year’s top scholar award goes to Jonah Perkins!”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Veteran BBC war correspondent Lyse Doucet was the president of the Bayeux awards jury.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

Musk holds a 48.4% equity stake in SpaceX, which represents approximately 6.42 billion shares across common stock, options and unvested performance awards, according to an August SEC filing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The latest round of tax credit awards comes less than a month after Newsom signed a bill to create the state’s first post-production incentive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Most of the awards now go to premium cable outlets such as HBO and streamers including Netflix and Apple TV.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“So you didn’t get all the school awards back in elementary school? And I guess they just give anybody a scholarship to those rich kid schools, huh?”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Canadian poet Anne Carson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented the crew with the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest unit-level military decoration awarded by the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

And in 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor - the nation's highest civilian honour - by Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

A source added that "licences are awarded on the basis of current financial performance, so the grounds to refuse one are unclear".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Her mama had told her all about his courage in the big war and how he'd been awarded seven medals.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

He said the Nobel committee must be asking itself: "Is there any potential for this prize to create harm rather than good in awarding it?"

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

He’s never settled into a particular genre and, perhaps due to that wide-ranging restlessness, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be awarding him an honorary Oscar in November.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Crystal Palace's Marc Guehi was pulled down by Bournemouth's Bafode Diakite, with the referee awarding a spot-kick.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

A State Department official who declined to be named stressed that the process for awarding grants was ongoing and that multiple offices provide input.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

“All right, pal,” Finny spoke in his cordial, penetrating voice, that reverberant instrument in his chest, “don’t start awarding prizes until you’ve passed the course. The tree is waiting.”

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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