prestigious

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This year women swept the country's most prestigious literary prize - the Yi Sang Awards - winning in all six categories for the first time.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

Parents of his students are Ivy League graduates, Greene said, adding, “they want their kids to get the kind of education that will get them admitted to those types of prestigious schools.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

One friend, a former senior executive at a finance company, had turned down several prestigious offers to join corporate boards and instead was planting a garden at her summer home in Maine and growing vegetables.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

In May, she leaves for a three-month residency with the prestigious Picador Professorship in Germany.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

The other was Dr. John Foulke, who was a fellow of Philadelphia’s prestigious College of Physicians and a member of the Pennsylvania Hospital board.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy