prizewinner
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“Nuisance Bear,” a prizewinner at Sundance earlier this year, brought an effective style of its own to a story set in Churchill, Manitoba, aka the “Polar Bear Capital of the World.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
The opening-night film is the documentary “Kokomo City,” a prizewinner at the recent Sundance Film Festival.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
Rockwell and star Teyana Taylor open up about their ‘heartbreak letter’ and Sundance prizewinner ‘A Thousand and One,’ opening Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
He says he’ll put the seeds from his new prizewinner up for auction, too.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2022
Harry eyed me and then said, “Let me look at him. He’s a prizewinner, isn’t he? If they had an entry for moths at the Fentress Fair, you’d take it, easy.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
She’s the eldest child of John Cheever, the 20th-century literary titan whose short-story collections and novels were once enormous bestsellers and habitual prizewinners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
The country’s prizewinners are sold at high-stakes auctions — so high that wealthy ranchers share ownership.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
In an open letter, the postponement was condemned by over 600 writers, including Nobel prizewinners such as Abdulrazak Gurnah, Annie Ernaux, and Olga Tokarczuk, and Booker Prize winners Anne Enright, Richard Flanagan and Ian McEwan.
From Reuters ● Oct. 17, 2023
You could also see it in the top two prizewinners in the festival’s World Cinema programs, both of which offered stirring portraits of animals and their human caretakers struggling in the wake of environmental decay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2022
As a result, German schools lost some of the best minds, including physicists and Nobel prizewinners such as Albert Einstein.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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