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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). 

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The reaction that powers the sun has long been considered the ultimate clean-energy prize.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

“Schmigadoon!” fended off the competition to take the night’s top prize along with awards for both its book and score by Cinco Paul.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

The Al-Nassr man has eight World Cup goals to his name, one short of Eusebio's Portuguese record, but the ultimate prize is obvious: helping Portugal lift the trophy for the first time.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Only six new musicals opened on Broadway this season, with four competing for the top prize, but there’s more consistent quality among the shows without songs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

He’d let us play as many games as we wanted, and then if we still didn’t get the prize we were after, he’d play the game to win it for us.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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