appraise
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In January, Ho Chi Minh City's Civil Judgment Enforcement Agency said that it was seeking experts to appraise the value of two crocodile skin Hermès Birkin bags seized from Truong My Lan.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
We’re really training him to appraise things at a young age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
The temptation to amuse the audience led him to betray his duty to appraise the work of aspiring artists who tremblingly dared present themselves before His Nasty Majesty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
If your husband wants to appraise his children of your estate plan, he can do that.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026
He and Jutta smuggle the device back to Viktoriastrasse 3 and appraise it beneath an electric lamp.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Key to the burgeoning market are firms like Professional Sports Authenticator, of Santa Ana, which authenticates and appraises cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
The ceramics and glass expert, with Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers in Edinburgh, joined the BBC programme in 2018 as one of the specialists who appraises objects brought in by members of the public.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
“There is a bid/ask spread just like there is for any other traded asset,” explained Trip Brannen, chief financial officer at Coinfully, a company that appraises and purchases coins.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025
Roberts said the companies will go through an appraisal process to determine the value of Hulu, and that process appraises “a lot more than Hulu,” in his opinion.
From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2023
As the searching light of the sun reveals not only the beauties of life but all its sordid inequalities, so the judgment of humanity rests upon the obvious and appraises and condemns with relentless indiscrimination.
From Grit Lawless by F.E. Mills Young
When Gordon Russell from Vero Beach, Fla., had a diamond from Costco appraised, he said that the jeweler thought the stone had come from Tiffany & Co.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Looking back, he said it was "quite evident that nobody was fully appraised of the potential hazard that they were exposed to".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The couple isn’t planning on getting the bust appraised due to the high cost of the service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“We plan to sell it to another family member for the appraised value.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
In the morning, her mother appraised her over the orange juice.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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Still, Mr. Turley observes, the newly independent Americans’ rage “would prove transformative for many framers in appraising the promise and the perils of democratic systems.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Buffett’s success hinges on his skills as a value investor, “always appraising stocks as fractional-ownership interests in businesses that he planned to hold over the long term,” said the manager of the $23.5 billion fund.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 19, 2025
She wasn't interested to know that Clyde, appraising us from his teeny terrarium, was a near-doppelgänger for the 16 1/2-year-old companion I had lost a few months before.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
Star, meanwhile, said Mrs Macron had "great talent" when appraising her performance.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
One day, appraising himself with severity in the bathroom mirror, Lefty realized that he had become one of those older men who slicked their hair back in allegiance to an era no one could remember.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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