AWARDEE Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

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as in honoree

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Recent Examples of awardee In most instances, the evening culminates with a performance by the awardee. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2026 Previous Fashion Icon awardee Tracee Ellis Ross joined the event as a sponsor through her brand Pattern Beauty. — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026 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

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Entertainment icon Liza Minnelli, also a past honoree, will serve as honorary chair.

— Paul Grein, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026
Grassroots Crisis Intervention Executive Director Mariana Izraelson is another honoree.

— Nicky Zizaza, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of honoree

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The Walk of Fame features bronze stars embedded into the sidewalk along Smallman Street with plaques that detail the accomplishments of each inductee.

— Mike Darnay, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductee returns with Pick You Up (via Old Green Barn Productions LLC), a seven-track collection produced by Crow and guitarist Jeff Trott and recorded at her Old Green Barn home studio.

— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of inductee

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Peltola, who represented Alaska's at-large district from 2022 to 2025, is challenging Sullivan, a two-term incumbent.

— Matthew Choi The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
The two candidates — incumbent Karen Bass and City Councilmember Nithya Raman — have staked out differing positions about how the Los Angeles Police Department has performed under McDonnell.

— Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

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