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

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Recent Examples of statuette The Oscar statuettes will be presented in a ceremony for the 16th annual Governors Awards on November 16 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood. Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 17 June 2025 With these two examples in mind, you’d be forgiven for thinking this was always the way—of course the film garlanded at the world’s most prestigious film festival would go on to collect the most golden statuettes, right? Radhika Seth, Vogue, 12 May 2025 Stahelski talked Vulture through why the time is finally right for the industry to get a golden stunt statuette — and what the Academy will need to do to make sure the award has integrity. Chris Lee, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025 In addition to the Best Picture Oscar, John Ridley won for Best Adapted Screenplay and Lupita Nyong'o took home the statuette for Best Supporting Actress. Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for statuette
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Noun
  • The French American artist, who died in 2010, is best known for her giant sculptures of spiders, including a 20-foot-high bronze creation that sold for $32.8 million in 2023, setting a record-high price for a work by a female artist.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 30 June 2025
  • In September of 2023, Prentiss’ Bannister sculpture was unveiled along the channelized Providence River a block from RISD Museum and two blocks from the Art Club.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
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  • The figurine will soon be part of a permanent exhibition at the Polish Arms Museum.
    Real-Time news team, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025
  • Verifying the date and provenance of the figurine was complex because the Venus of Kolobrzeg was riddled with anomalies.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • For her second wedding in 1964, Elizabeth Taylor wore a marigold yellow chiffon baby doll dress — her hair braided down her back and strewn with flowers.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 30 June 2025
  • Instead, the robot doll sequel didn’t come close to matching the 2022 original’s box-office launch.
    Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
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  • An imposing figure physically, Mindframe came into the $1 million Foster as a runner with considerable potential, but still unproven at the classic distances of a mile and an eighth or better.
    Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Jahangir did not break down the casualty figures but said the attack had hit the prison’s infirmary, engineering building, judicial affairs and visitation hall, where visiting family members were killed and injured.
    David Rising, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025

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“Statuette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/statuette. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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