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preciousness

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My clients lost precious years with loved ones, plus jobs and educational opportunities.

James hauled anything regional and precious on board, as if later it would all prove to have been a myth if he didn’t carry some away as proof that it existed.

From Eater

The government referred to the funds as “key clients” that provided “important sources of revenue and market intelligence” for the precious metals desk.

From Fortune

Now I cover my precious with this clear polycarbonate armor.

A precious metals dealer who sold overpriced gold and silver to older conservatives was sued by the US federal government and 30 states this week for alleged large-scale fraud.

From Quartz

What does the preciousness of our white flesh represent in contrast to burnt brown bodies created by our bombs?

He stripped it of its preciousness, embraced its commercial, mass appeal, and turned the designer into a celebrity.

Some of his preciousness is a veneer, however, for his fatalistic streak.

He would shake them with this horror, he would thrill them with this sense of the infinite preciousness and holiness of life!

It was under your ministry I was brought to know Christ, and feel the preciousness of his love.'

I know so well the preciousness of those smiles that tell one the mind is not held out of all reach of soothing.

I am uniformly cheerful now—feeling the preciousness of these moments, in which I still possess love and thought.

She had always felt a kind of sanctity about her mouth, a preciousness that must not be cheaply cast away.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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