How to Use laureate in a Sentence

laureate

noun
  • Martey is the state’s ninth artist laureate since 1997.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Gates was the first American to win the Nasher Prize when he was named the 2018 laureate.
    Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • This is the eighth time that a child of a Nobel laureate has also gone on to win a Nobel Prize.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The death of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison in the summer of 2019 loosed a flood of words upon the world.
    Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The laureates for the 2023 Polar Music Prize have been revealed.
    Fred Bronson, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Not the drag ambassador, the drag president, or the drag mayor, Drollinger is the drag laureate.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • Baraka refused to step down, so the state decided to no longer have a laureate.
    Hillel Italie, al, 29 Oct. 2022
  • One laureate, Friedrich von Hayek, used his Nobel Banquet speech to critique the prize.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2022
  • At 25, the youngest Nobel laureate in history is at a new juncture in her life.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has already been convicted on half a dozen charges and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
    Richard C. Paddock, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2022
  • The laureate from Belarus, Mr. Bialiatski, may not have even learned of his award on Friday.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • This epic novel by Naipaul, a Nobel laureate, revolves around one man’s lifelong search for a house to call his own.
    Yurina Yoshikawa, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • To see the full programs each laureate performed, visit violin.org.
    The Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz wrote a novel on one, and famous films were set on others.
    New York Times, 29 June 2022
  • The video, which has 1 million views on Twitter, appears to show the Nobel peace laureate attempting to give the boy a peck on the lips in the presence of an audience.
    Reuters, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The Nobel laureate claimed the 155 chapters of his book could be read in any of several different sequences.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The 2021 Nobel laureate’s new novel takes place in what is now Tanzania.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2022
  • The novelist Rachel Cusk on what makes the Nobel laureate’s fiction so shocking.
    Rachel Cusk, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz wrote a novel on one, and famous films were set on others.
    Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
  • New Nobel laureate Svante Paabo — who is an author on this latest study — published the first draft of a Neanderthal genome a little over a decade ago.
    Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
  • When this year’s winner is announced on October 6, the laureate will most likely be a surprise.
    Alex Shephard, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
  • One Nobel laureate in economics who did not sign the letter was Paul Krugman.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
  • In each city, the mayor will officially select the laureate.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The government would likely think twice about treating a Nobel laureate in such a fashion.
    Harish Pullanoor, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Such a chair was present at the Nobel ceremony, to symbolize the absent laureate.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Divas hosted debauched salons on them, and a Nobel laureate wrote a novel on one.
    New York Times, 29 June 2022
  • By placing mothers and their babies at the center of her poems, the Nobel laureate explored a world made of reality and myth.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But the 25-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate also isn't asking for a crumb of representation.
    Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Bialiatski is the fourth laureate to be honored while in detention.
    Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2022
  • This prestigious award has become a global icon, attracting laureates from all corners of the world.
    John Browne, Fortune, 21 July 2023

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