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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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“I appreciate him being a Mainer from a small town,” said Connor Start, 18, a construction worker from Islesboro.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

“You just go to do your job every day, and you don’t think about it day to day, but then when something like that happens, that’s when you really see where people appreciate you.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The allusions to real things in Ms. Butterly’s sculpture are limited, but they give the viewer one of the show’s rare opportunities to appreciate her sizable command of form for its own sake.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

There’s something incredibly medicinal about khichuri that younger me couldn’t appreciate at the time.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

As we passed a mannequin dressed in a frock coat and top hat, Mr. Whitby stopped to appreciate it.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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