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recipient

[ri-sip-ee-uhnt] / rɪˈsɪp i ənt /
NOUN
receiver
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To qualify, a recipient institution must be established since Jan. 1, 2025 and have at least 200,000 square feet of research space it controls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

As a recipient of Chips and Science Act funding, Micron was barred from buying back stock for a two-year period.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The average number of hours each month billed by in-home care providers for each recipient has increased by 13.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

As a senior, Elsesser was named best new artist at the Guild Hall Exhibition, the youngest-ever recipient at the prestigious visual and performing arts center in East Hampton.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Those who did not want to write gave Amaranta verbal messages, which she wrote down in a notebook with the name and date of death of the recipient.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Older recipients can get an additional benefit for dependent children who aren’t yet 18, or in some cases 19.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Those recipients also showed improvements in some metabolic disturbances, adding evidence that changes in the microbiota may help drive the effects of the mulberry preparation.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

The housing department will announce the recipients in February.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Many Medicaid recipients work low-wage jobs in the retail, hospitality, food-service, healthcare and agriculture industries, which means they face inconsistent and unpredictable work hours and positions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

These are the qualities that welfare - to-work job-training programs often seek to inculcate, though I suspect that most welfare recipients already possess them, or would if their child care and transportation problems were solved.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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