distinction

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The director has the striking distinction of having staged the premieres of plays that won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in back-to-back years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The specimen had even earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records, but scientists now say that distinction was based on a misinterpretation.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

Woodring also made a distinction between HDDs and other types of memory that are seeing similar momentum from AI.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Published when its author was 28 years old, the slim, elliptical volume played a central role in Camus winning the Nobel Prize for literature at a time when that distinction still meant something.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

She has the distinction of being the first female born into the Corcoran clan for no one even knows how many generations.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt