prize
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The Nobel committee said the prize was awarded for “demonstrating how economic models could be reconstructed to revitalise stabilisation policy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto shared the best actress prize at Cannes and merit attention from Oscar voters as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
CNN journalists won both the television prize and video image award for their report on Israeli soldiers serving settlers in the West Bank.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
Pillay, a former United Nations high commissioner for human rights, received the prize Friday for her decades of work advancing international law and accountability for atrocities.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
“Mrs. Hopper and Mrs. Patel and I have consulted with one another. We have decided to give the prize for Best Trick to Sayeh Nasiri.”
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
High quality decorated vessels would likely have circulated widely and been prized throughout the community.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
David Ellison emerged with his prized Hollywood juggernaut on Tuesday as the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Once again it contained a photo of a complete stranger wearing Kev's prized possession – this time in Barcelona.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Their British approach to R&B prized tightness, clarity, and buoyant precision over the loose, improvisational grit often associated with American soul.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
In a nearby pasture, Grammer’s prized horses often roamed.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
It begins in vulnerability—a future cold day, redeemed by tonight’s memory—and ends in a plea that the beloved change nothing, prizing acceptance over perfection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The Monster survey showed recent grads are prizing job security over career growth.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026
Netflix was sometimes criticized for prizing quantity over quality in its film strategy, a knock that Mr. Stuber acknowledged.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Kourtney accused Kim of using her wedding as a “business opportunity,” prizing money over their relationship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2023
Both were thoroughgoing materialists, not in prizing possessions but in holding that matter alone provided the underpinnings of the world.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
And there have been, of course, prizes, including a Netflix movie, the Spanish maximalist melodrama “La Bola Negra,” winning Toronto’s People’s Choice Award.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Yes, model training, drug discovery and winning prizes like the recently solved Navier-Stokes equations require hot chips in data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, still among the most prestigious prizes any movie can claim, “Fjord” aims for both a quiet, subtle power and the directness of a sledgehammer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
BTS and Stray Kids would have been eligible to compete for those prizes, but have decided to send a message to the Recording Academy instead.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
If they gave out prizes for being sick, Rachel would win the gold bricks.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
