honorable mention

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honorable mention

noun honorable mentions · honourable mention

  1. idiomatic A formal recognition given to a work or candidate of high merit that falls below the level of the main prizes or top honors in a competition, examination or award process. How good are DCGs from a linguistic perspective? Well, mixed. At one stage (in the early 1980s) they were pretty much state of the art. They made it possible to code complex grammars in a clear way, and to explore the interplay of syntactic and semantic ideas. Certainly any history of parsing in com

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noun award or recognition

中文榮譽獎 /荣誉奖 róngyùjiǎng
Portuguêsmenção honrosa
Françaismention honorable
Русскийпочётное упоминание počótnoje upominanije

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@misc{honorable_mention_2026,
  title = {honorable mention},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/honorable%20mention},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}