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Recent Examples of honoree
The five-time Grammy Award winner and 2024 Recording Academy Global Impact Award honoree has also used her success to elevate other female artists.
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Kors tempered expectations while introducing McDonald, the first honoree of the night, to the stage.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Karia is the other Trailblazer honoree at HollyShorts London 2025.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Carey will become the youngest person of the year honoree since Sting received the honor in 2004.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2025
An 11-time All-Star, 11-time All-NBA honoree, four-time NBA champion and two-time league MVP, Steph has rewritten the modern game with his elite shooting, ranking first all-time in career 3-pointers made (4,058).
—Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
As indicated on the Wicked star’s social media, the absence is pre-planned, as the podcast host is set to receive the Vantage Award as an Academy Museum Gala honoree in Los Angeles.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2025
City of Hope staged its annual Spirit of Life Gala last night at Los Angeles’ Pacific Design Center, raising nearly $6 million to fund cancer research and treatment and featuring an appearance from Cher to introduce honoree Tom Corson, co-chairman and COO of Warner Records.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
White, a Democrat and a former Hall of Fame honoree on the Kansas City Royals, had served as county executive since 2016 after joining the legislature in 2012.
—Ilana Arougheti
updated October 13, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Kors tempered expectations while introducing McDonald, the first honoree of the night, to the stage.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Karia is the other Trailblazer honoree at HollyShorts London 2025.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Carey will become the youngest person of the year honoree since Sting received the honor in 2004.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2025
An 11-time All-Star, 11-time All-NBA honoree, four-time NBA champion and two-time league MVP, Steph has rewritten the modern game with his elite shooting, ranking first all-time in career 3-pointers made (4,058).
—Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
As indicated on the Wicked star’s social media, the absence is pre-planned, as the podcast host is set to receive the Vantage Award as an Academy Museum Gala honoree in Los Angeles.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2025
City of Hope staged its annual Spirit of Life Gala last night at Los Angeles’ Pacific Design Center, raising nearly $6 million to fund cancer research and treatment and featuring an appearance from Cher to introduce honoree Tom Corson, co-chairman and COO of Warner Records.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
White, a Democrat and a former Hall of Fame honoree on the Kansas City Royals, had served as county executive since 2016 after joining the legislature in 2012.
—Ilana Arougheti
updated October 13, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for honoree
Noun
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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
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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,
IEEE Spectrum,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Guy is their newest inductee, a 20something with an iffy American accent (Denton is Australian), a worrying clonazepam dependency, a fancy NYU law degree and — of most interest to the Talamasca — a rare ability to read minds.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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Old Dominion, Charley Pride, and Liz Rose are the latest inductees into the Music City Walk of Fame.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Honoree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honoree. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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