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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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Lee and I called on James Buchanan, the 1986 Nobel laureate in economics, to write a blurb for our book.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

"Does being a Nobel Prize laureate give you at least some protection to say what you want?"

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

We know this because of the findings of William Sharpe, the 1990 Nobel laureate in economics.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

But analysts say the removals may be an attempt to erase from public spaces a powerful symbol linked to Suu Kyi, the popular Nobel laureate who remains detained.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

This time Neylan’s target was Melvin Calvin, a future Nobel laureate who had worked at the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago and then moved to Berkeley to research peacetime applications of medical radioisotopes with John Lawrence.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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