prestige

Example Sentences

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It’s a sushi restaurant that is of very high prestige.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

There's still prestige in being the first to plant your flag in the lunar dust.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

And interviewing a sitting president has long conferred prestige, which might well feel paramount amid shrinking audiences and newsroom layoffs.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

Ehrlich’s knack for being not only wrong but 180 degrees in error cost him neither popularity—he appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” more than a dozen times—nor prestige in academia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Whole areas of that relationship were still blank to me, but I knew something about the competitive, prestige seeking aspect of it, and about the perpetual conversational duel that can result from it.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin