prestigious
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One friend, a former senior executive at a finance company, had turned down several prestigious offers to join corporate boards and instead was planting a garden at her summer home in Maine and growing vegetables.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
In May, she leaves for a three-month residency with the prestigious Picador Professorship in Germany.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
England were "feckless, reckless and legless" on their dismal Ashes tour of Australia, according to the editor of the prestigious Wisden Almanack.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
He attended the Officers Training School, seen as less prestigious than the Pakistan Military Academy that has usually groomed the country’s army chiefs, according to Basit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
In February 1943, the 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment was awarded a prestigious honor.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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