laureate
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“There is nothing so joyous as a Mexican fiesta, but there is also nothing so sorrowful,” Nobel laureate Octavio Paz infamously wrote in “The Labyrinth of Solitude,” his 1950 treatise on the Mexican condition.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2026
The Nobel laureate Paul Krugman was one critic.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
As the laureate of Puritan New England explained in a preface, “the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
I’m on the phone with Eugene Fama, 87, the University of Chicago economics professor and Nobel laureate, and I think I’m testing his patience.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel laureate and the intimate friend of statesmen and millionaires, suffered a sudden bout of stage fright at his first meeting with a US president.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing laureate
Mandela's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Address
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