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prize

[prahyz] / praɪz /






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What are other ways to say prize? To prize is to value highly and cherish. 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). 

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Then again, TJ recalls his appearance at May’s ACM Awards, where he presented Langley with the prize for female artist of the year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The prize for stand-alone dynamics in this midterm cycle may go to the nation’s gubernatorial races.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The eligibility guidelines for the DGA’s top prize, directorial achievement in theatrical feature film, states that “re-releases, animated films, and documentaries are not eligible.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

He also corrected Scott's pronunciation of Brazil legend Socrates' name and admitted he wanted fellow Frenchman Kylian Mbappe to beat Kane to the top prize.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

For his labors, Bobby was awarded a $7,500 prize plus an honorarium of $3,000 from the U.S.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

One of its most striking features is an approximately 11,000-square-foot, air-conditioned collector’s garage, which once housed dozens of Foreman’s prized vehicles.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

The first very high notes I heard sung by a man were on John McCormack’s old recordings, made in the first decades of the 20th century; they were prized items in my grandmother’s collection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

David Ellison emerged with his prized Hollywood juggernaut on Tuesday as the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

High quality decorated vessels would likely have circulated widely and been prized throughout the community.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Yet a few hours outside their city, children are living in a different universe, a refugee camp where water is the prized possession.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Instead, Starc took four wickets in six deliveries with the new ball, first prizing out Ryan Rickelton for 42 and Marco Jansen 52.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

It begins in vulnerability—a future cold day, redeemed by tonight’s memory—and ends in a plea that the beloved change nothing, prizing acceptance over perfection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The Monster survey showed recent grads are prizing job security over career growth.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026

To her critics, Breed closed with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt prizing the person who strives in spite of setbacks rather than the naysayer who carps from the sidelines.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

Both were thoroughgoing materialists, not in prizing possessions but in holding that matter alone provided the underpinnings of the world.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Last year, the ceremony for the prizes drew famous faces such as former Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel and then-UK prime minister Keir Starmer.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, still among the most prestigious prizes any movie can claim, “Fjord” aims for both a quiet, subtle power and the directness of a sledgehammer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The laureates will receive their prizes at a formal ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of the death in 1896 of scientist Alfred Nobel, who created the prizes in his will.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

He also prizes the laboratory of the recording studio, especially once the band has left.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

He was awarding cash prizes to children all over his province who did well in their exams.

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai


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