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
  • Both he and his wife have been pictured giving Nazi salutes to their peers.
    Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Sarah Jessica Parker praises 'inspiration' Carol Burnett Legendary comedienne Burnett was in the audience, and Parker, 60, thanked her for both her artistic contributions as well as her life-changing impact on the star's family.
    Ema Sasic, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The party, organized by the US-Ireland Alliance, praises folks from Ireland — and some who are not — who contribute to film, television and music.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
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 15 Jan. 2026.

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