plaudit

Example Sentences

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The case for removing the Baton of Honor as an academic plaudit is overwhelming.

From Washington Times • Jul. 20, 2020

There’s no plaudit that would probably impress someone who won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in his rookie year as a car critic in 2004, but man, the dude can jam.

From Fox News • Dec. 31, 2019

Here he's staging an early career retrospective, a plaudit ordinarily reserved for "more elderly, dead or successful artists", as he puts it.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2011

The publicity was excellent: he was named “Innovator of the Year” by the Guardian, a British newspaper, and gained a plaudit from Hillary Clinton, America’s secretary of state.

From Economist • Sep. 16, 2010

May sacred memories hold me here, And when life's dream closes, May I the plaudit "well done" wear, Then sleep beneath her roses.

From Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures by Bain, George W.