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prize

[prahyz] / praɪz /






Usage

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

Example Sentences

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As well as offering the few tins it had secured as a prize for its readers, it reported that thanks to “quiet diplomacy” between the magazine and AB Foods, negotiations are advancing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

In the series’ hierarchy of importance, love comes before work, but friendship, as the Spice Girls sang, is the real prize.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

They will receive a £250,000 cash prize and the opportunity to perform at the annual Royal Variety Performance.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Some lawmakers have suggested capping the prize value at HK$300 or below, in line with countries including Britain and Singapore.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

The grand prize was a brand-new super- deluxe game system.

From "Trouble at the Arcade (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #1)" by Franklin W. Dixon




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