Pulitzer Prize

noun

Pu·​lit·​zer Prize ˈpu̇-lət-sər- How to pronounce Pulitzer Prize (audio)
ˈpyü-
: any of various annual prizes (as for outstanding literary or journalistic achievement) established by the will of Joseph Pulitzer

called also Pulitzer

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Several weeks after her departure, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025 Since then there have been others, including a defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize board in 2022, but more recently a crush of threats and suits has sent a wave of fear and panic across the media, as they are intended to do. S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 8 July 2025 As love interest Lois Lane, Margot Kidder gathers the most attention as the story-hungry reporter out to win a Pulitzer Prize. Martin Gold, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2025 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson This moving epistolary novel from 2005 earned Robinson the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and inspired three of the author’s subsequent novels. Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for Pulitzer Prize

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First Known Use

1918, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Pulitzer Prize was in 1918

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“Pulitzer Prize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pulitzer%20Prize. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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