as in sculpture
a small statue won a gold-plated statuette as the prize

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Recent Examples of statuette The Cannes Film Festival had a strong showing at Sunday night’s Academy Awards, with four movies that debuted on the Croisette taking home nine gold statuettes, a recent record for the festival. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2025 Gibbons is also credited as the designer of the distinctive gold Oscar statuette, doubly enshrining his place in Academy Awards history. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025 The Brutalist won three statuettes at the 2025 Oscars, including Best Actor for Adrien Brody, Best Cinematography for Lol Crawley and Best Original Score for Daniel Blumberg. Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025 Adrien Brody, who in 2003 became the youngest person to collect a best actor Oscar, broke another record while accepting his second statuette Sunday. Kyla Guilfoil, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for statuette
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Noun
  • The annual sculpture exhibitions at Houghton are always awe inspiring partly because of their setting at one of the UK’s most magnificent stately homes.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • The exhibit features papier-maché sculptures and fiber installations made with paper waste.
    La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Compare the kerfuffle over Ulta’s lipstick figurines with Ferrari’s similar partnership with Hot Wheels, which produced no discernible outrage at all.
    Faran Krentcil, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
  • That is because his Chinese manufacturer who makes his collector figurines is absorbing most but not all of the cost of the 145% U.S. tariffs.
    Emily Feng, NPR, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • In fact, these dolls might be the one thing that’s hotter than a Birkin bag in 2025.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 14 May 2025
  • Just north of Magic Mountain’s roller coasters, hidden within the vast, anonymous industrial parks of Valencia, lies the secret lab where the murderous doll M3GAN was born.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • That figure increases to $2,360 for families who make between $100,000 to $200,000 and $13,200 for families with an income of above $200,000.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • The team is led by Mensah (Noma Dumezweni), a mothering figure who plays a big role in bridging the gap between robot and human this season.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025

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“Statuette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/statuette. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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