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appreciation

[uh-pree-shee-ey-shuhn] / əˌpri ʃiˈeɪ ʃən /




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Prasetyo said the president had extended his thanks to Perry "and the highest appreciation for his dedication over approximately seven years leading Bank Indonesia".

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

"This research has given me a renewed appreciation for the importance of preserving extant species for the future."

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

“For people who want to manipulate the rules, the situation is ripe for getting stock with aggressive valuations into a Roth account, where the appreciation will be forever untaxed.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch led the appreciation for the PM, and Lib Dem leader Ed Davey also had kind words for Starmer.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Our customers came from different backgrounds and even different countries, but all had one thing in common: appreciation for modest fashion.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

This intimate volume includes slices of memoir, critical essays and appreciations of other authors, among them Ross Macdonald, whose prose she finds “so elegant and rich as to drive any writer to fits of envy.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

Throw in the sheer tonnage of think pieces and appreciations and other navel-gazing and you’d be forgiven for asking: Do we also need a book about Lorne Michaels?

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2025

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

Meyrick went to see him soon after the first novel had gone into its thirtieth thousand, and Bates was reading "appreciations" and fingering a cheque and chuckling.

From The Secret Glory by Machen, Arthur




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