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laureate

[lawr-ee-it, lor-] / ˈlɔr i ɪt, ˈlɒr- /


NOUN
poet laureate
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VERB
decorate
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In Peruvian literature he is considered second only to Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, who died last year.

From BBC

Like the Nobels they satirise, Ig Nobel laureates hail from all over the world.

From Barron's

Becoming one of the NBER’s roughly 1,850 “affiliated scholars” is a mark of arrival for economists, and many recent Nobel economics laureates are included in their ranks.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sam Sacks reviews the Nobel laureate’s “wily and endearing” final novel, in which a scholar investigating the life of a little-known guitarist suddenly becomes famous.

From The Wall Street Journal

Just this week, Richard Axel, a Nobel laureate Columbia professor, and Lawrence Summers, the decorated economist and former Harvard president, stepped down from positions at their institutions because of their Epstein ties.

From The Wall Street Journal