medalist

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Recent Examples of medalist The Olympic silver medalists have now lost three straight times to the U.S, even as players are elevating their individual game at top clubs around the world. Emily Olsen, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025 Kendall’s Kitchen World Cafe opened in Nov. 2024, with Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee stopping by to help celebrate. Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025 Now Wade has seen the highest reaches of American athletic success: All-Star, All-Star MVP, scoring champion, NBA champion, Finals MVP, Olympic gold medalist. D. Watkins, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025 Ruby Tui, a two-time Olympic medalist and Women’s Rugby World Cup winner with New Zealand, has been watching closely as her American counterpart has taken rugby by storm, amassing legions of followers on social media. George Ramsay and Amanda Davies, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for medalist
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Noun
  • Last year’s acting prizewinners — Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr., and Da’Vine Joy Randolph — are also slated to appear, meaning a likely return to the Oscars tradition of the previous year's winners passing the title on to the new winners of the opposite gender.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Released in South Korea this past June, the Cannes prizewinner turned French Oscar submission went on to bank more than 45,000 local admissions, making the romantic drama a boutique success story for 2024.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The superstar was spotted out in Paris this weekend wearing some body-enveloping leather looks that are clinging onto the last days of fall-winter dressing.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2025
  • This week, the superstar fills four spots on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Sanders, the Colorado Buffaloes quarterback who was a Heisman Trophy finalist this past college season, remains available heading into the third and final day of the NFL Draft.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The two-time finalist for the Doak Walker Award, which honors the nation’s top running back, rushed for 1,660 yards and 15 touchdowns last season, a stellar encore to his breakout sophomore year.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The company acquired 102 federal mining claims in the Lisbon Valley of Utah in November 2021 and expanded its holdings to 743 placer claims over 14,320 acres by July 2023.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Hancock was an All-Region football player and two-time Top 3 state placer in wrestling, according to the outlet.
    Sam Gillette, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025

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