blue ribbon
The highest honor or prize awarded in some competitions and contests.
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robotic feed that delivers to X and here and other places. I tried notifying them of empty posts but got no replies so I gave up. Shame as the content is interesting. Even Musk revered his account on X but never gave…
Warmly remembering a period of about 2.5 years where any time we cracked a beer my friends would all go ‘Heineken? FUCK THAT SHIT, PABST. BLUE RIBBON’
Lakewood's Grant Elementary one of only 14 Buckeye State schools to earn Ohio Blue Ribbon Award - goo.gl/alerts/HsWeaq #GoogleAlerts
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The highest honor or prize awarded in some competitions and contests.
Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.
“robotic feed that delivers to X and here and other places. I tried notifying them of empty posts but got no replies so I gave up. Shame as the content is interesting. Even Musk revered his account on X but never gave him a free blue ribbon. Cheapskate.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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The badge adopted by a teetotal society.
Mr. Allen’s work, “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” took home the blue ribbon in the fair’s contest for emerging digital artists — making it one of the first A.I.-generated pieces to win such a prize, and setting off a fierce backlash from arti…
“Warmly remembering a period of about 2.5 years where any time we cracked a beer my friends would all go ‘Heineken? FUCK THAT SHIT, PABST. BLUE RIBBON’”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Lakewood's Grant Elementary one of only 14 Buckeye State schools to earn Ohio Blue Ribbon Award - goo.gl/alerts/HsWeaq #GoogleAlerts”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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The emblem of the Order of the Garter.
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