Synonyms of awardee

awardee

noun

as in honoree

Related Words

• honoree
• inductee
• incumbent
• officeholder
• dropout
• noncandidate

Dissimilar Words

• applicant
• candidate
• prospect
• contender
• seeker
• aspirant
• entry
• hopeful
• competitor
• expectant
• campaigner
• entrant
• contestant
• favorite
• qualifier
• applier
• spoiler
• dark horse
• stalking horse

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of awardee

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

Wesley Morgan taught physics, as well as a bilingual class for recent Spanish-speaking immigrants, and became a PAEMST awardee in 2023. — Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025

Three groups won parts of a $30 million grant to transform the design of RF chips using machine learning, but at least one awardee has gotten no word on when or whether the funding will flow. — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025