oeuvre
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The prize, announced at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday, awarded Carson “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Nobel Prize committee said they had selected her "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
To stoke more curiosity in his oeuvre, the sisters have organized the biggest show of Marden’s art in two decades at New York’s Gagosian Gallery, through mid-December.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
And Neill relished that ability, returning time and again to characters whose unpredictability mirrored life’s, creating an oeuvre that is both grotesque and supremely human.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
They sound like prudes, which, considering their oeuvre at Truman, strikes me as more than a little ironic.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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Always an industrious worker, his oeuvres ranged from stage set design to photography and printmaking.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Garg's case is a window to the massive oeuvres of several Indian singers and issues of ownership right and compensation associated with them.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025
The two centuries-old museum said in a statement it had set up a research team to study the 25 oeuvres and determine if there are other works that were also confiscated.
From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2022
Subsequent Rembrandt years — 1956 and 1969 — have concentrated on bringing together masterpieces by Rembrandt and his pupils so as to further delineate their individual oeuvres.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2019
I would choose you from all the world, were you even the daughter of the executeur des hautes oeuvres, as the heroine of a romantic story I once read turned out to be.
From Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock
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