as in sculpture
a small statue won a gold-plated statuette as the prize

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Recent Examples of statuette Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift both walked away with no new statuettes to add to their collections (Eilish has nine; Swift has 14, including four for Album of the Year). Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2025 Meanwhile, the last time two musicals each received double-digit Oscar nods like Wicked and Emilia Pérez in the same ceremony was in 1965, when Mary Poppins was nominated for 13 statuettes, while My Fair Lady was nominated for 12. Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025 Adrien Brody’s bid for his second Oscar statuette and at least two tech prizes for cinematography (Lol Crawley) and original score (Daniel Blumberg) will be vital to its ultimate haul. Clayton Davis, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025 The quartet is back on the Grammy leaderboard a full six decades after winning their first statuette. August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for statuette 
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Noun
  • Barber did not build the sculpture himself, which is the work of Lundeen Sculpture, a studio run by brothers George and Mark Lundeen out of Loveland, Colorado.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The night began beneath the building's soaring atrium, where a large-scale Richard Serra sculpture commanded the space.
    Angela Tafoya, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Other decorations: Other Valentine’s decor includes snow globes, figurines, inflatables, door covers and chandeliers.
    BestReviews, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Indeed, among the more than 200 pieces going up for auction at Christie’s later this month are the late interior designer’s turquoise jewelry; a lime green figurine depicting her on a scooter; a pink, red and yellow Carolina Herrera ensemble, and 18 pairs of eyeglasses, not one of them plain black.
    Miles Socha, WWD, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Disneyland kicks off Black History Month with gospel music and soul food The Sakura line includes fuzzy and furry plush dolls of Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Stitch and Baymax ($35 to $45) and smaller keychain dolls ($15).
    Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The new and old versions of the classic Barbie dolls are on display at Mattel Design Center in El Segundo, California, U.S., February 22, 2024.
    Melissa Repko,Gabrielle Fonrouge,Michael Wayland,Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • All figures are seasonally adjusted but do not factor in inflation.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2025
  • There’s no saying filmmakers can’t create impressionistic portraits of famous figures, but this one drifts away so lazily that there doesn’t seem to be anything particularly pertinent to Lincoln’s legacy or impact in its making.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2025

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“Statuette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/statuette. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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