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laureate

[lawr-ee-it, lor-] / ˈlɔr i ɪt, ˈlɒr- /


NOUN
poet laureate
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VERB
decorate
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Poet Laureate, are “deft” and “counterintuitive, but never contrarian.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Diebiru-Ojo, who was named an Africa Food Prize Laureate last month alongside Kenya's Mary Abukutsa-Onyango, is quick to talk of a "revolution of the cassava sector" in Nigeria.

From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025

Morpurgo is one of UK's best-known children's authors, writing more than150 books and serving as Children's Laureate.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s Poet Laureate, has attracted legions of fans with their spoken word poems, including, “Acceptance Speech after Setting the World Record in Goosebumps.”

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2025

Before long, Handel’s English-language oratorios even featured home-grown English singer-soloists, too, fulfilling contemporary actor-playwright and Poet Laureate Colley Cibber’s aspiration to ‘reconcile Musick to the English Tongue’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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