laureates

Definition of laureatesnext
present tense third-person singular of laureate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laureates
Verb
  • This is one of the worst of them, with Alec Baldwin bravely fighting to bring Medgar Evers’s assassin to justice while Whoopi Goldberg cheers him on and cries.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Nothing good will ever happen to the Maple Leafs, or anyone who cheers for them.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The town applauds their arrival every April with the Migratory Bird Celebration, three days of bird banding, tours, and lectures.
    Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Hilliker shouts as her family applauds them.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Their skill and sense of daring have been foundational for Davis, who simultaneously salutes their music and uses it as a vital launching pad for her own work.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Beginning with the costume and hunters’ parade and continuing on through the Oktoberfest church service and the landlords’ concert and gun salutes at the Bavaria as the grand finale on the last day, kids can learn about German traditions among a whole lot of color and character.
    Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Also starring Jack Palance and Fritz Lang, the behind-the-scenes drama about the making of a movie begins with Bardot lying nude on a bed as her husband (Michel Piccoli) caresses and praises her body.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 28 Dec. 2025
  • This leave-in delivers serious hydration while helping repair past damage, says celebrity hairstylist Sophie Rose Gutterman, who praises its layer-friendly formula that works well with other products like gels and oils.
    Malia Griggs, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • The Iberian nation has taken in millions of people from Latin America and Africa in recent years, and the leftist Sánchez regularly extols the financial and social benefits that immigrants who legally come to Spain bring to the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy.
    Suman Naishadham, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2025
  • There’s a wonderful chapter in which an older woman extolls a younger one to tell a painful story not with words, but with movements, so as to expel her pain without enlisting narrative’s power to summon, and thus force a re-living, of painful events.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Laureates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laureates. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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