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[uh-wawrd] / əˈwɔrd /




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The film won the award, and this time, Barroso had a surprise in store, an Oscar-worthy dress ready to go for the big night even though she’d just had surgery after suffering a brain aneurysm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Hayek Pinault dedicated the award to Dolores Huerta, who attended the gala last year, and called Huerta “a womb for our community.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

He signed up a handful of well-known chefs to lend their support, including two-time James Beard award winner Gale Gand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

He also won the club's player of the year award three seasons in a row.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

So far, though, we could only be excited about the honor of it because we wouldn’t get the actual award till Fire Prevention Day.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

Kane has written himself into Bayern legend since joining from Spurs for £86m in August 2023, scoring 102 goals in 102 Bundesliga matches, winning two league titles and three successive Golden Boot awards.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Over his career, Greene earned multiple Emmys and three Edward R. Murrow awards, and he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

My name has been spelled wrong on yearbooks, awards and even my insurance card.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The Mobo awards music ceremony - which celebrates black music, culture and excellence from the UK and abroad - was launched by King in 1996.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Gramps thinks she should patent the recipe and sell it because she uses it on her orchids, which are always winning awards.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

Two years ago, Newcastle were awarded a spot-kick against Bournemouth through a VAR intervention when Adam Smith tugged back an offside Fabian Schar.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Tatum was awarded best supporting actress for her part, making her the youngest Oscar winner ever at age 10.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Earlier Wednesday, Zelensky awarded the first lady a national honor for her role in brokering a partial ceasefire that allowed the evacuation of civilians from a Russian-occupied town.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Funding came from grants awarded by the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Their inventors, two scientists from South Africa, are awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Its opponents have said the proposed criteria for awarding the grant funding would appear to create an extremely small pool of qualified recipients.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The case ended up with a jury awarding Carroll $83.3 million in damages.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

New York City is awarding $5 million to businesses who move daytime deliveries to overnight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

He said the Nobel committee must be asking itself: "Is there any potential for this prize to create harm rather than good in awarding it?"

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

No. “Well—this is just a literary sort of exercise,” Pacheco told him scornfully, at last awarding the spiders a disdainful glower.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols


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