blue ribbon
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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
In 2022, a blue ribbon commission recommended that county officials create their own homelessness agency and “streamline” LAHSA’s duties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025
The show, hosted by Jason Biggs, features blue ribbon winners from state fairs nationwide competing for a $100,000 prize.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024
Tenari holds up three shades of blue ribbon and turns to her sister.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
And they won a lovely blue ribbon and a gold one besides.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
“It’s a challenging space,” Brent Glass, who became director shortly after the blue-ribbon report in 2002, told ProPublica.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
The Carnegie Foundation offered prestigious fellowships, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences convened a blue-ribbon commission.
From Slate ● May 1, 2026
It means he’s poised to break a blue-ribbon record despite his own team undermining his efforts to get there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
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
For the longest while she stared at the blue-ribbon winner, the oven-hot cherries simmering under the crisp lattice crust, and then she was overcome, and hugging Nancy, asked, “Honest, did I really make it myself?”
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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