prestigious
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He won the PGA Tour's prestigious Players Championship last month and is looking to follow in the footsteps of McIlroy and Scheffler, who did the double in 2025 and 2024.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
Georgetown University Law Center has named Ms. Magill its dean—a position nearly as prestigious as her former one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Although this will be his 18th start in the prestigious tournament, McIlroy “still felt like I had to earn the right to be there a little more often.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
He was getting set to open his production of “Cold War Choir Practice,” a new play by Ro Reddick that won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize this year.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Vanderbilt gave him a reasonable starting proposal: He would make the Pimlico Special, the prestigious stakes race that War Admiral had won in 1937, into a two-horse event.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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