RECIPIENT Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

recipient

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as in beneficiary

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Recent Examples of recipient The recipient of multiple Emmy nominations for her turn as Gilead’s Serena Joy Waterford in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Strahovski is repped by Paradigm, Sue Barnett and Associates, Prime Talent Media, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026 Barrett is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short-story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026 Family members have identified the man killed in a fast-moving house fire that tore through four homes in Lansdale, Pennsylvania early Friday as John Garchinsky, a retired Marine and Purple Heart recipient. — Joe Holden, CBS News, 31 July 2026 Lachter is the recipient of the 2022 Peres Center for Peace Award and was a 2023–2024 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for recipient

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This year’s main beneficiary is OCA (Opportunity, Community, Ability), an organization that empowers individuals with autism and other developmental differences.

— Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
Burry is putting his money where his mouth is, placing bearish bets against some of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom, including Nvidia, and others that are positioned against the broader semiconductor sector.

— Yun Li, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026

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