honor
noun
honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions.
Example Sentences
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On Monday, a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant named Pierre Damas Bel, who graduated from high school with honors in May, walked into traffic on I-70 in Springfield highway and was killed.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Patience graduated with honors from Princeton University, where she was a city hall reporter and news editor for The Daily Princetonian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The medal is one of the highest honors associated with human spaceflight in the United States.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
The difference with this one is that Mourinho, who claims 26 major honors, makes Michael Jordan seem like a happy-go-lucky guy who wasn’t terribly bothered about winning or losing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
He’d grown up in New York City, gone to yeshiva schools, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania magna cum laude, and then with honors from Harvard Law School.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
