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appreciate

[uh-pree-shee-eyt] / əˈpri ʃiˌeɪt /






Usage

What are other ways to say appreciate? To appreciate is to exercise wise judgment, delicate perception, and keen insight in realizing the worth of something. To esteem is to feel respect combined with a warm, kindly feeling. To value is to attach importance to a thing because of its worth (material or otherwise). To prize is to value highly and cherish.

Example Sentences

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Cole replied: "Appreciate u king! People got to learn how to take a joke. It's all in fun."

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

Appreciate the variety of ways a planet might be, and how many of them are, cold, dry, sterile, baked, toxic, inhospitable, and, as far as we can tell, completely devoid of life.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

"Appreciate everyone for checking in," he wrote on Instagram.

From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025

“Thank you VCC! Appreciate it!” said Chatsworth resident Primo Custodio as he walked by several volunteers in May.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

Appreciate thou its value and do not neglect it, so that thou mayest attain to that which was longed for by the holy ones in bygone ages and centuries.”

From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá




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