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  • adjective Alternative spelling of prizewinning.

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  • The label "prize-winning" can be used indiscriminately, but the Alder Tree gooseberry and elderflower ice-cream is truly deserving – last year it earned a rare three stars at the Guild of Fine Foods Great Taste Awards, the food industry's Oscars.

    Ten of the best UK ice-cream sellers 2011

  • Local needs have always been a driver of innovation, one classic example being the Philippines mobile banking system that goes beyond what you find in the U.S. The companies behind the AIA prize-winning inventions are not just about inventing new concepts, but elegantly bringing pre-existing technologies to a broader audience.

    Targeting Local Needs to Find Global Solutions Adam Smith 2011

  • His "killingly fair-minded and viciously funny" review of the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham's latest book, By Nightfall, has won novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year award.

    Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award 2012

  • It will also operate the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower, designed by Turner prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor.

    London 2012 chiefs decide future of three Olympic venues 2012

  • Nobel prize-winning economists have called for measures of economic performance that look beyond GDP to encompass social and environmental progress.

    Capitalism with a conscience 2012

  • Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for breakthroughs into how the immune system works, just days after the death of one of the researchers, who had adapted his prize-winning insight to treat his own cancer.

    Nobel for Immunity Research Gautam Naik 2011

  • The other is David McCullough, America's premier historian whom I met when he accompanied my then-boss Vice President Mondale to the Panama Canal in 1978 shortly after publication of his epic prize-winning book about the creation of the canal, "The Path Between the Seas."

    Al Eisele: Defining Reagan's Legacy: Two Expert Views Al Eisele 2011

  • New Nobel prize-winning research of some kind proved it.

    Make Your Refrigerator Far More Efficient | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Famed artist LeRoy Neiman drew his first prize-winning picture more than 80 years ago.

    Renowned Artist Seeks to Inspire New Generation Melanie West 2011

  • The focus, inevitably, has been on Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel prize-winning campaigner who was released from decades of house arrest only 14 months ago, and her largely urban-based National League for Democracy NLD.

    In Burma's villages, floods and power cuts mean more than reform 2012

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