How to Use laureate in a Sentence

laureate

noun
  • This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Since then, it has been awarded to a total of 99 laureates.
    — CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Baraka refused to step down, so the state decided to no longer have a laureate.
    — Hillel Italie, al, 29 Oct. 2022
  • But for this year's laureate, even getting to the ceremony was a feat of its own.
    — Carrie Kahn, NPR, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Besides, there was the laureate committee’s vote to think about.
    — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • There have been more than 240 laureates in the award's history.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Since then, it has been awarded 57 times to a total of 99 laureates.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Will Trump become a Peace Prize laureate?
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates, and that room is filled with both courage and integrity.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Bialiatski is the fourth laureate to be honored while in detention.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 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
  • At 25, the youngest Nobel laureate in history is at a new juncture in her life.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Not the drag ambassador, the drag president, or the drag mayor, Drollinger is the drag laureate.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • The board currently includes eight Nobel laureates, many of them in physics or chemistry.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Divas hosted debauched salons on them, and a Nobel laureate wrote a novel on one.
    — New York Times, 29 June 2022
  • Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz wrote a novel on one, and famous films were set on others.
    — Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
  • The government would likely think twice about treating a Nobel laureate in such a fashion.
    — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The work in my field stems from the groundbreaking research the Nobel laureates conducted.
    — Eli Levenson-Falk, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
  • 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 laureate, Friedrich von Hayek, used his Nobel Banquet speech to critique the prize.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2022
  • This is not uncommon — women make up 4% of laureates since the award’s inception, though that has inched up to 12% in the past decade.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The prizes were presented by genuine Nobel laureates.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz wrote a novel on one, and famous films were set on others.
    — New York Times, 29 June 2022
  • So far, only 33 out of 122 laureates have come from outside Europe.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 8 Oct. 2026
  • One Nobel laureate in economics who did not sign the letter was Paul Krugman.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Such a chair was present at the Nobel ceremony, to symbolize the absent laureate.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Deisseroth nodded to the community of scientists who worked with him and his co-laureates to make their advances possible.
    — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The novelist Rachel Cusk on what makes the Nobel laureate’s fiction so shocking.
    — Rachel Cusk, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • Gates was the first American to win the Nasher Prize when he was named the 2018 laureate.
    — Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2022

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