laureate
Example Sentences
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Sam Sacks reviews the Nobel laureate’s “wily and endearing” final novel, in which a scholar investigating the life of a little-known guitarist suddenly becomes famous.
Just this week, Richard Axel, a Nobel laureate Columbia professor, and Lawrence Summers, the decorated economist and former Harvard president, stepped down from positions at their institutions because of their Epstein ties.
Ancient, patriarchal and oracular, Tennyson was not merely the poet laureate of England; he was, like his queen, a symbol of the British Empire.
The sudden invasion of Springs -- birthplace of 1991 Nobel literature laureate Nadine Gordimer -- reflects a wider frenzy, as gold prices have surged past $5,000 an ounce this year, more than double their January level.
From Barron's
Nobel laureate and outgoing interim government chief Muhammad Yunus has said, "there's no anti-Hindu violence", dismissing such reports as "fake news" by the Indian media.
From BBC
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