AWARDEE Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

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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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Additional presenters for the honoree categories will be revealed at a later date.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
In Brittle Magic, Newbery honoree Kate O’Shaughnessy introduces us to a young girl in a similar predicament.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026

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Prior honorees presenting incoming inductees include The Honorable Fiona Ma, William Wang and Soo Man LEE.

— Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026
Sabathia — a culture-setting leader and ace who helped the Yankees win the 2009 World Series — entered the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a first-ballot inductee last year with a Yankees hat on his plaque.

— Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026

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And in Alaska, the pipeline project – estimated to cost between $45 and $55 billion – has entered the close Senate race between GOP incumbent Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola.

— Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
Three seats are up for grabs on Placerville’s five-member, at-large City Council, with only one incumbent seeking reelection.

— Haley Parsley October 2, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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