AWARDEE Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

awardee

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Recent Examples of awardee Artadia, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, provides each awardee with a $15,000 unrestricted grant. — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 July 2026 As Maher walked on stage to receive his award from 2014 awardee Leno, up stepped impressionist Friend from the audience to interrupt the proceedings. — Paul Harris, Variety, 29 June 2026 The final awardee, Trisha Baga, a Queens native, works across multimedia installation, ceramics, and performance, exploring, among other themes, the increasing encroachment of technology into everyday life. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 4 June 2026 Corrin in particular made history as the first non-binary awardee. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 4 June 2026 Seftel’s is the probable awardee. — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026 Holger Klinck directs the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, another Bezos Earth Fund awardee. — Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025 Wesley Morgan taught physics, as well as a bilingual class for recent Spanish-speaking immigrants, and became a PAEMST awardee in 2023. — Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Three groups won parts of a $30 million grant to transform the design of RF chips using machine learning, but at least one awardee has gotten no word on when or whether the funding will flow. — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025

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Now a second Times report notes that concern over the choice of honoree has only become more troublesome since that first article was published a month ago.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2026
The Legacy Award honoree was selected by the Academy’s Board of Governors from candidates recommended by its Special Awards Committee.

— Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2026

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Brown’s opponent is the incumbent Jon Husted, who previously, as lieutenant governor, helped usher in an explosion of data centers in the state, many of which were developed after Ohio offered them lucrative tax breaks.

— Dan Kaufman, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2026
Still, the odds are strongly in his favor — especially in a midterm election serving as a referendum on the deeply unpopular incumbent.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

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