AWARDEE Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

awardee

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Definition of awardee

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Recent Examples of awardee In most instances, the evening culminates with a performance by the awardee. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2026 Previous Fashion Icon awardee Tracee Ellis Ross joined the event as a sponsor through her brand Pattern Beauty. — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026 Artadia, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, provides each awardee with a $15,000 unrestricted grant. — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 July 2026 As Maher walked on stage to receive his award from 2014 awardee Leno, up stepped impressionist Friend from the audience to interrupt the proceedings. — Paul Harris, Variety, 29 June 2026 The final awardee, Trisha Baga, a Queens native, works across multimedia installation, ceramics, and performance, exploring, among other themes, the increasing encroachment of technology into everyday life. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 4 June 2026 Corrin in particular made history as the first non-binary awardee. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 4 June 2026 Seftel’s is the probable awardee. — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026 Holger Klinck directs the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, another Bezos Earth Fund awardee. — Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025

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Five trophies are handed out to women along with a grant to each honoree, a gift bestowed to their respective nonprofit organizations to help propel and support their work.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
Hinton was a community and family man, the former president of the NAACP Cincinnati Branch, a Great Living Cincinnati honoree, a veteran, a UC professor, department head, and vice provost.

— Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of honoree

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The 1992 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and his wife arrived as guests at the ceremony, which honored Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, the Allman Brothers Band and more.

— Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2026
Def Leppard’s journey from Sheffield, England schoolmates to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees will be the focus of an upcoming documentary.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of inductee

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Republican Mark Alford is the incumbent in the 4th Congressional District, which includes the northern half of Columbia to the southern and eastern suburbs of Kansas City, including parts of Cass County and Jackson County.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026
Continue reading … -- POLITICS REMATCH REVENGE — Sitting Dem governor becomes first incumbent in 8 years to lose party primary.

— , FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026

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