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pulitzer

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pulitzer.

Editorial note

Just because a newspaper receives a Pulitzer Prizes does not mean that it has no bias, or does not make mistakes.

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Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pulitzer gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

Ellipsis of Pulitzer Prize. [An annual American award given for journalism, literature, and music]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pulitzer.

noun

A surname.

noun

Ellipsis of Pulitzer Prize. [An annual American award given for journalism, literature, and music]

Example sentences

1

Just because a newspaper receives a Pulitzer Prizes does not mean that it has no bias, or does not make mistakes.

2

The true reason why blogs are beating regualar newspapers is because newspapers are trying too hard to win pulitzer prizes.

3

It's the Man Booker Prize winner for 2014, which is more or less the British equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize.

4

So it looks like the NYTimes isn't going to win a Pulitzer on this one?

5

As for Rupert Murdoch, even though he's never won a Pulitzer Prize, he's a perfect fit for the legacy of Joseph Pulitzer and the politically-biased, sensationalist yellow journalism he made his fame and fortune from.

6

It attracts front page attention, massive follow-up coverage, and Pulitzer prizes.

7

And I am not commenting on the 'fact checking industry' I'm commenting on the pulitzer prize winning work of a single organization.

8

Now I wouldn't award Arrington a Pulitzer for online journalism just yet but I would say this is a step in the right direction.

9

I'm a frequent defender of BuzzFeed as a legit news source...they've hired several colleagues and friends of mine and there are multiple Pulitzer winners among their large data/investigations team.

10

He is an inspiration to me due to his ability to straddle two worlds: his day job was mainly as an insurance executive, but he flowered late and won a Pulitzer for his poetry.

11

I remember that Hipstamatic and its filters was all the rage among my amateur cameraphotographer friends...it was so dominant that Pulitzer Prize-winner Damon Winter of the New York Times used it in his war photography [1].

12

He is the author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, which won him a Pulitzer Prize as well as Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.

Quote examples

1

A Pulitzer Prize winning organization whose "Lie of the Year" was proven to be false, and who probably knew it was a lie when they wrote it?

2

On the other hand the implied story "Opus Dei secretly in control of (or heavily influencing) America's special operations arm" would be news, Sy Hersh-winning-a-Pulitzer kind of news...

3

According to Wikipedia: "The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction[1] and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction." Current and former startupistas may be reminded by the book, of some aspects of their life/work-styles, whether good or bad.

Proper noun examples

1

A best seller that got there by word of mouth, and was within an inch of a Pulitzer.

2

Writing about some visualization a tool showed you doesn't win you a Pulitzer.

3

Coding is collaborative, no-one's a Pulitzer-prize author working out of a cave.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use pulitzer in a sentence?

Just because a newspaper receives a Pulitzer Prizes does not mean that it has no bias, or does not make mistakes.

What does pulitzer mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is pulitzer?

pulitzer is commonly used as noun.