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appreciate

[uh-pree-shee-eyt] / əˈpri ʃiˌeɪt /






Usage

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

Example Sentences

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"For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in the statement.

From Barron's

She says it made her appreciate the show's dressing and post-production work, with the exterior transformed with wisteria and made to look like it was surrounded by other properties.

From BBC

Of course he won’t appreciate the comparison and neither does he really need instruction from it.

From The Wall Street Journal

Getting her work appreciated, however, is another matter.

From Los Angeles Times

The probate court and your attorney will appreciate that you are facing this head on, and willing to make amends and do whatever you can to make this right.

From MarketWatch