Pulitzer
Americannoun
noun
Usage
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).
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He was a member of the WSJ team that won the 2023 Pulitzer for Investigative reporting for a series of stories that exposed government regulators' financial trades.
He was a part of a team of reporters whose coverage of China's rising nationalism was a 2021 Pulitzer international reporting finalist.
In 2003, he was part of a Journal team that won a Pulitzer prize for a series on corporate corruption, and is a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award, business journalism's highest honor.
He was part of the Journal’s team in China that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
In 2011, Michael was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his feature stories from the Afghanistan war.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
