highest honors

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In September, Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, the cradle of the island’s chip industry, awarded Lo one of its highest honors for his technological feats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

In 2016, Mr. Weinstein was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, one of the country’s highest honors.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Tyler, a gifted orator who won statewide prizes in college, graduated in 1907 from Harvard Law School, where he received the highest honors ever given to an African American student.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2023

This month, Ardern received one of New Zealand’s highest honors for her service leading the country through a mass shooting and pandemic.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Our all-Navajo 297th Platoon finished with the highest honors of all the recruits at boot camp.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac