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laureate

[lawr-ee-it, lor-] / ˈlɔr i ɪt, ˈlɒr- /


NOUN
poet laureate
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VERB
decorate
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Congolese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Denis Mukwege called for "urgent measures" to "provide humanitarian aid" to those affected.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Oscar Arias, a former Costa Rican president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, blamed Chaves for the U.S. decision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

He’s back in less than four months, in a laureate role conducting the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

One reason to be confident that AI’s market-beating odds won’t improve in any lasting way is a famous article written nearly forty years ago by William Sharpe, the 1990 Nobel laureate in economics.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

We named our new daughter Zindziswa, after the daughter of the poet laureate of the Xhosa people, Samuel Mqhayi, who had inspired me so many years before at Healdtown.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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