laureate
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Hours after Pillay was named the laureate, the United States announced new sanctions against the ICC, provoking swift condemnation from member states and the United Nations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 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
Mr. Wilczek is a 2004 Nobel laureate in physics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
On Thursday, the literature laureate will be revealed, and perhaps the most keenly anticipated award -- the peace prize -- is due on Friday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Space cannot even properly be said to be expanding because, as the physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg notes, "solar systems and galaxies are not expanding, and space itself is not expanding."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Mandela's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Address
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