medal
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He recently went to the White House to receive a medal from President Trump, alongside Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
“I have never been surer of anything in my life,” adding a generous tip for Tyler, who deserved a combat medal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Each Nobel prize comes with a diploma, a gold medal and a cheque for $1.2 million, to be presented on December 10.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
His side beat hosts Japan 1-0 in the final and, afterwards, Lee held up his gold medal and triumphantly announced he was "not going to the military".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Pacific team took the first medal of the duodecimalthon.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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Some 40 works—including statues, reliefs, medals and more, many of which have never been shown outside of Tuscany—reveal the genius of Donatello, Vecchietta, Francesco di Giorgio and others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
The hosts finished with 83 golds, a distant second in the medals table behind China with 169.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Chinese swimming sensation Yu Zidi, just 13, stole the show in the pool with three gold medals, all in Games-record times.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Whatever happens next, we won't ever get that day back and the chance to celebrate around Stoke-on-Trent with the cup and medals we so honestly fought for.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
An old man, chest gleaming with medals, face whitened with pancake makeup, steps onto the patio.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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The dog that almost medaled at the Olympics.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
“Horrific” is not a word you normally hear from an athlete who has just medaled in a big-time race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
“Obviously it wasn’t my best performances, but at the end of the day, whoever medaled, medaled, and that’s what’s so exciting, because you just never know with gymnastics,” she said.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
“We don’t lose relays. We don’t lose swim-offs. We’re here to win gold medals,” he barked at his team, according to Kieran Smith, another Nesty swimmer who medaled at the Tokyo Olympics.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
In the 2002 Winter Olympic figure-skating competition, a French judge and a Russian judge were caught trying to swap votes to make sure their skaters medaled.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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I doubt I had ever seen so many uniformed, braided and medalled men under one roof.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2018
And so to the IAAF, now ruled by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s almost comically damning report to have medalled in cheating and corruption.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2016
"For Deibold to medal is a testament to how strong our team is, because any of us could have medalled."
From Reuters ● Feb. 18, 2014
But few athletes were described as having medalled, and none of having podiumed.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2012
To-night he has dined well, and his big hand is stroking the Essence of Selfishness who purrs against his medalled chest under a caress as gentle as a woman's.
From A Village of Vagabonds by F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith
With one surgically rebuilt knee and a completely torn ACL in the other, the 41-year-old Vonn gutted her way to the starting gate and had a real chance of medaling before her violent crash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Olympic and Paralympic Committee does pay Team USA athletes for medaling but not for competing in the Olympics, although they can apply for grants to support their training and travel.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024
The finalists who came close to medaling were:
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
In Tokyo, the Americans’ execution scores on each apparatus were mostly similar to the medaling teams.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2022
I jumped right up and finished the event, but I knew I had no chance of medaling now.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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The United States finished with 69 points with Japan scoring 68 and Italy medalling for the first time in the team event with 60.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
So in terms of "medalling" the countries, it has to be bronze to the Netherlands, silver to Jamaica and shiny gold to the Czech Republic.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2012
Twitter users have spent days exploiting the Scooby Doo-inspired "we could have got gold if it wasn't for you medalling kids" gag.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2012
"It is rather a dangerous pastime, Mr. Lenoir, this medalling fancy of yours," he said.
From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng
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