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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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I’m on the phone with Eugene Fama, 87, the University of Chicago economics professor and Nobel laureate, and I think I’m testing his patience.

From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026

Theoretical proof for this comes from a famous article written 40 years ago by William Sharpe, the 1990 Nobel laureate in economics.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Studies by the Nobel economics laureate James Heckman and other researchers, for example, concluded that the benefits of early childhood interventions in North Carolina were seven times as large as the costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

The spiky succulents are signifiers of what makes the desert special to people, said poet Ruth Nolan, the Mojave Desert literary laureate.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 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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