precious
Example Sentences
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They are expensive to replace — between $1,000 and $4,000, according to AAA — because they contain precious metals.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
It then changed the instructions, according to the Associated Press, after local police issued a statement asking the public to capture and turn in American pilots alive to security agencies to “receive a precious prize.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
What next for Dowman - how do you look after a precious talent?
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
AI chips are the most precious commodity at any leading research lab, and at OpenAI, the video-generating app Sora was eating up far too many of them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Furiously he strode from the room and minutes later the entire squad trooped out—not, unfortunately, before the silent soldier had spied and pocketed our precious packet of tea.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
