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recipient

[ri-sip-ee-uhnt] / rɪˈsɪp i ənt /
NOUN
receiver
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California, the largest recipient, is due $1.5 billion to $2.1 billion over the decade, followed by New York with up to $1.13 billion.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Sir Billy was a fitting recipient of the honour and a world class athlete, whose story deserved to be told.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

A research group looked at the consequences for a student financing college, a family buying a home and a Social Security recipient.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

It can attach to the first molecule it encounters, even if that molecule would not normally be the preferred electron recipient based on its ability to stabilize the added electron.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

She was glad June’s letter finally found its recipient.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

Confirmation is meant to bring recipients closer to God and “imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark,” according to the Vatican’s official guide to its doctrine.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Entities controlled by Amistad, including Amistad Merchant Funding, Amistad STF II and Amistad Debt Warehouse 1, were among the recipients of loans from Walter’s insurers Delaware Life and Clear Spring, according to their recent filings.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

The impersonation was targeted at her personal phone, not government phone, but recipients included US senators, governors and top business executives.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Between September 2025 and June, 246 scholarship recipients from Gaza were flown to Italy and San Marino in a series of evacuations through Italy's "IUPALS" program for Palestinian students, according to the foreign ministry.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

These are the qualities that welfare - to-work job-training programs often seek to inculcate, though I suspect that most welfare recipients already possess them, or would if their child care and transportation problems were solved.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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