award
verb (used with object)
to give as due or merited; assign or bestow.
are awarding
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present progressiveof award.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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New research shows educators are awarding higher grades for work that would have received lower grades in the past, a practice known as grade inflation.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
Gen. Rob Bonta in writing Thursday to create a task force to examine corruption in local cannabis licensing and ensure that cities are awarding permits without favoritism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2022
Officials in New York City also are awarding children $100 if they get their first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine at city-run vaccination sites.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
At least one Wal-Mart shareholder has expressed concern that the company’s directors are awarding bonuses to executives despite lagging performance.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2011
Your manners are always under examination, and by committees little suspected—a police in citizen's clothes—but are awarding or denying you very high prizes when you least think of it.
From The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms by John A. Cone
