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recipient

[ri-sip-ee-uhnt] / rɪˈsɪp i ənt /
NOUN
receiver
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As a recipient of funding under the Chips and Science Act, the memory-chip maker’s stock repurchases have been restricted over the past two years, but those limitations will ease in December.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Amory Lovins, a bespectacled and mustachioed 78-year-old physicist and former MacArthur grant recipient, doesn’t buy the safety rationale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

To qualify, a recipient institution must be established since Jan. 1, 2025 and have at least 200,000 square feet of research space it controls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

As a recipient of Chips and Science Act funding, Micron was barred from buying back stock for a two-year period.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

But the neurologist was persuasive, intimidatingly handsome, and the recipient of a fabulously coveted research grant.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Olympic triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee, from Dewsbury, was also among recipients at the investiture.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The White House clarified that eligible recipients will receive $90, mostly through direct deposit beginning in early October.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

For 27% of recipients, Social Security is their only income, according to data from Pew Research Center, making it harder to withstand an emergency.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Morgan promises to bring a real-time reporting system that would use blockchain technology and artificial intelligence, allowing the public to review the price and recipients of contracts and highlight any conflicts of interests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

However, much of the music in children’s lives is “unchosen,” in other words they are passive recipients in much of the music in their lives, and not actively engaged in its selection.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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