Pulitzer

[pool-it-ser, pyoo-lit-]

noun

1. Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.

Pulitzer

/ ˈpʊlɪtsə /

noun

1. Joseph. 1847–1911, US newspaper publisher, born in Hungary. He established the Pulitzer prizes

Example Sentences

Both won Pulitzer prizes, World Press Photo awards and global renown.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Mary Oliver, who died in 2019, described her keenly observed poems as “little alleluias” to the natural world that surrounds us.

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Recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, and featuring multiple arrangements from Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw, it's a radical, rebellious operatic opus that sounds like nothing else in the pop sphere.

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In any case Ms. Majok, herself Polish-born and a Pulitzer Prize winner for “Cost of Living,” is not a polemical writer, even if the play occasionally touches on the specifics of immigration policy.

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The politically deflated might also consider World War II — the subject of Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy — the second volume of which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for history.

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When To Use

What is a Pulitzer?

Pulitzer is a short name for the Pulitzer Prize, one of the annual prizes awarded for excellence in journalism, photojournalism, fiction and nonfiction books, drama, poetry, and music. Along with writers and artists, some prizes are also awarded to news publications. They are primarily awarded to U.S. citizens and U.S.-based publications.Winning a Pulitzer is widely considered one of the most prestigious honors in these fields, especially for U.S. journalism.How is Pulitzer pronounced?The correct pronunciation of Pulitzer is PULL-it-sur (not PYOOL-it-sur).