appreciation
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In more than two hours at the fairgrounds, the senator rarely walked more than a few feet before being approached by a Mainer expressing appreciation or asking her to pose for a photo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
“It’s brought to me a real appreciation of the deeper aesthetic,” Sawitskas says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Alex Mahon says she's noticed an uptick in appreciation for in-person experiences like these - perhaps as a backlash to the amount of our lives now spent on a smartphone screen.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
By paying only $850,000 for your bond, the buyer would receive the 5.6% interest payments your bond pays plus $150,000 in appreciation when the bond matures at $1 million.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Scythes are supposed to have a keen appreciation of death, yet there are some things that are beyond even our comprehension.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
The report referenced “birthday celebrations, employee appreciations, baby showers, and flowers for a selective few, including executive leadership.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
So rarely was she profiled that the obituaries and appreciations tend to recycle the same quotes from a rare interview she gave to the Boston Globe in 1987.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
These are not mutually exclusive appreciations of this gown, but I brought to the discussion my research on abolitionist visual culture and read it through that lens.
From Slate ● May 4, 2023
It’s the usual way of appreciations to speak of somebody in the past tense.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023
During all these years he has contributed to its pages those admirable reviews and appreciations which are so utterly unlike anything heretofore attempted in the realm of musical criticism.
From A Day with Robert Schumann by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
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