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appreciation

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




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“I expressed my deep appreciation for the Israel-NYC economic relationship during my campaign for comptroller, and that appreciation remains unchanged,” Levine said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“It’s brought to me a real appreciation of the deeper aesthetic,” Sawitskas says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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

I grew up with a level of appreciation for coffee that was just insane.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

It was there in the social worker at Harper High School who made a point of shouting out her love and appreciation for students each time she passed them in the hall.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

English is English whether it be used to express the creations of our imagination, our aesthetic appreciations, or our daily wants.

From Business English A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig


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