honors
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On Monday, a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant named Pierre Damas Bel, who graduated from high school with honors in May, walked into traffic on I-70 in Springfield highway and was killed.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
The medal is one of the highest honors associated with human spaceflight in the United States.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
His play earned him Sun Belt Conference defensive player of the year honors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
The difference with this one is that Mourinho, who claims 26 major honors, makes Michael Jordan seem like a happy-go-lucky guy who wasn’t terribly bothered about winning or losing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Kuiper belt was actually theorized by an astronomer named F. C. Leonard in 1930, but the name honors Gerard Kuiper, a Dutch native working in America, who expanded the idea.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
