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The soldiers are shadowed by an allegorical figure carrying poppies, symbolizing sleep—an analog, in the art of the time, for death—and a laurel branch symbolizing peace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

At the center, resting on a plinth in front of a shallow niche and beneath a graceful valance of laurel, is French’s striking bronze portrait bust of Hunt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The Berlin T-Shirt shows a male figure wearing a laurel wreath.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

A number of the trees appeared to be a drought-resistant species known as Indian laurel fig, or Ficus microcarpa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025

One could scarcely see past all the crowns, roses, shamrocks, halos, piles of gold, angel wings, laurel leaves, roaring lions—the list went on and on.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

But that should not mean resting on our laurels or on the golf cart if a friend or acquaintance reaches out for help.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

As a teen, he would rent movies from his local Blockbuster solely based on them having the Cannes laurels on the cover.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Through a proprietary mixture of light nostalgia baiting and ever-present curiosity, Gellar has achieved a rare type of icon status — a superstar who owns her legacy, but isn’t willing to rest on her laurels.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026

The Academy hands out its annual laurels at the Oscars, Nicole Kidman plays a medical examiner in a Patricia Cornwell adaptation, Daniel Radcliffe heads to Broadway in ‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

Beautiful flowers adorn the platters—roses, edelweiss, bloodroot, violets, laurels, and tulips.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

We are in the midst of a great year for cinema, Glenn, and “The Zone of Interest,” already widely acclaimed and laureled at Cannes, sits near the top of the list for me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

The production, a laureled British import, viscerally reinvented a seldom revived 20th century tragedy for our time.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2018

You can only hope Steward has since joined him, and is now enjoying the desserts he never got — laureled at last, if graciously declining Ganymede’s libations.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2015

As much as Sarris yearned to canonize Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray, he also needed to cauterize the work of directors laureled by front-line movie reviewers.

From Time ● Jun. 21, 2012

The foes with which they waged their strife Were passion, self, and sin; The victories that laureled life Were fought and won within.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge

Walt Disney himself, laurelled by the White House as the “Creator of an American Folklore,” claimed the mantle of innocence, describing Mickey as “Youth, the Great Unlicked and Uncontaminated.”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019

The most laurelled of black composers, Ellington was honored on his 70th birthday with a dinner and jam session at the White House.

From Time ● Oct. 24, 2011

It was to be learned from the intermediate monologue that he had emerged from his trials laurelled and proud.

From The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane

A very clever etching of a winged and laurelled Death playing on the bagpipe and making his appearance to an old couple at table.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

Garlands rustled on their heads And they swung their laurelled staves, Bending back in reckless ways, Full of joyous insolence.

From Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine

Smith's continuous stream of productivity, her topical range, the accolades laureling her books, her prodigious artistic abilities, should be evidence enough to assuage her fears about credibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2018