blue ribbon
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Far from staging the blue ribbon Ulster senior finals it will now only be able to host lower ranking fixtures.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Lancashire, who appeared at the hearing via a video link from HMP Peterborough, wore her brown hair in pigtails - one tied with a pink ribbon and one with a blue ribbon.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
"I went to the L.A. County Fair, and I won that blue ribbon," she remembers.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024
If you think of the blue ribbon — I mean, there’s nothing … higher than a blue ribbon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
It curled like an icy blue ribbon through the thick green forest.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
The Carnegie Foundation offered prestigious fellowships, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences convened a blue-ribbon commission.
From Slate ● May 1, 2026
A 2024 report by a blue-ribbon panel of defense experts makes for harrowing reading about our vulnerability in the next war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
NAIRR’s road map comes from a 6-year, $2.6 billion plan for growing the nation’s academic AI research capacity that a blue-ribbon panel proposed in January 2023.
From Science Magazine ● May 8, 2024
Attorney Connie Rice, a member of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, headed the blue-ribbon panel that reviewed the LAPD’s response to the Rampart scandal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Then we’d make fun of the blue-ribbon craft projects and dance a wild jitterbug to whatever lame-o band they’d brought in.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
