medalist

noun

variants or medallist
Definition of medalistnext
as in prizewinner

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Recent Examples of medalist Iowa Democratic Senate nominee Josh Turek, a two-time Paralympic gold medalist in wheelchair basketball, has publicly opposed male athletes competing against females. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 The cap table is headlined by Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Lisa Leslie and Olympic track and field gold medalist Sha’Carri Richardson. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2026 In classic Biles fashion, the gold medalist gave her social media followers a glimpse inside her game-day routine before kickoff. — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2026 The second week of the competition took place last night, sending Giada De Laurentiis home but also seeing an Olympic gold medalist and Paralympic gold medalist at the top of the leaderboard. — Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for medalist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for medalist
  1. prizewinner
  2. semifinalist
  3. superstar
  4. finalist
  5. placer
  6. quarterfinalist
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  • This Cannes Directors’ Fortnight prizewinner sets out its pitch-black-comic stall early with a prologue in which, after a brief contretemps, local man Raoul Brun (Jean-Louis Coulloc’h) blows his supercilious neighbor’s head off with a shotgun and then disappears.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 June 2026
  • North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame Learn about North Dakota's history of rodeos and ranching; see prizewinners' saddles; and visit a gallery of bronze sculptures depicting longhorns, horses, and cowboys.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026
Definition of prizewinner
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  • His upcoming short Parkside East won the 2026 DGA Student Spotlight Award and was a semifinalist for the 2026 Student Academy Awards.
    — Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Razza — Jersey City, New Jersey Chef and owner Dan Richer, a 2011 James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef semifinalist, opened Razza in 2007.
    — Sadie Chafe, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of semifinalist
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  • Kyle Tucker scored on an Andy Pages RBI single before superstar Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run home run 428 feet into the right-center field bleachers.
    — Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Independent professional wrestling is one of the last true sports where sports fans can get into an event, meet up-and-coming superstars, see a great show and leave with your shirt on your back.
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of superstar
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  • Mournful questions like this one undergird Joudah’s collection, a finalist for the National Book Award, which bears witness to violence in Gaza.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The roaster was also tapped as a finalist for the 2023 awards, when the company was under its original ownership.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of finalist
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  • Most of the early mining there consisted of placer mining — extracting minerals from sand and gravel in river beds — and mining declined during the Civil War.
    — John Meyer, Denver Post, 26 July 2026
  • Its breakout star is Parker Schnabel, a thirty-one-year-old who runs a placer mine in the Yukon that brought in fifty-one million dollars last year.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Definition of placer
Noun
  • One involved American Learner Tien, with the 20-year-old bidding to become the youngest American male quarterfinalist at Flushing Meadows since Andy Roddick in 2002.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Central, a Class 4A quarterfinalist last season, graduated Jonaz Walton, a former AJC Super 11 who rushed for 5,965 yards in his career, now at Notre Dame.
    — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of quarterfinalist

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