recipient
Example Sentences
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On Wednesday, lawyers for the Victoria Cross recipient did not immediately apply for bail.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
They build in operational transparency, which allows users to peek behind the curtain and be a part of how something works, not just a recipient of it.
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026
Europe’s most eager recipient of updates from America was Silas Deane, a Connecticut politician whom Congress had sent to Paris in March 1776 as a secret diplomat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The programme's main recipient, it had been set to receive 43.73 billion euros from the total envelope before Nawrocki's veto.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
It was a bit like Frankenstein’s monster, except that it was my mother’s monster, and I’d been the lucky recipient of its great girth.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
Vocabulary lists containing recipient
Academy Awards, List 1
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This Week In Words: March 29–April 4, 2020
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