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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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He conceded, but not without adding a colorful tie, hand-painted by Nobel laureate Wally Gilbert.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

We know this because of the findings of William Sharpe, the 1990 Nobel laureate in economics.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

But analysts say the removals may be an attempt to erase from public spaces a powerful symbol linked to Suu Kyi, the popular Nobel laureate who remains detained.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

The obvious gem of the collection is the attention-getting title story, about the Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, who died in 2024 — and whose complex, layered short fiction Aviv admires.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Space cannot even properly be said to be expanding because, as the physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg notes, "solar systems and galaxies are not expanding, and space itself is not expanding."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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