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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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Myanmar's presidential spokeswoman released photographs of Suu Kyi and Aris speaking into telephones, the detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate sitting under a calendar marked with Thursday's date.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Later economists, including 1976 Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, found problems with Keynes’s simplistic idea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“This year’s laureate has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Those events could prompt the committee to this year choose a laureate who enjoys broad consensus, such as an individual or organisation working to protect children or humanitarian efforts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The well-known remark of William Blake that our great laureate of the War in Heaven, John Milton, was “of the devil’s party without knowing it” is testament to this.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith


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