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reward

[ri-wawrd] / rɪˈwɔrd /




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Rangers' reward for knocking out Premier Sports Cup holders St Mirren is a mouth-watering quarter-final against Old Firm rivals Celtic.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

“The fashion industry, fashion consumers, always reward novelty.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

These brain areas are associated with higher-level cognitive processing and reward, respectively.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

And to be fair to them, voters perversely reward this kind of behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

But their quest ended with the spirits’ reassurance, “God will reward you.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Jewellery, cash or first cars: Do rewards boost exam grades?

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Stablecoins can’t offer fraud protection or access to credit and rewards of credit cards, and Mastercard and Visa are now offering stablecoin-linked programs.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

Key research has recently shown the lateral septum also contains place cells, but these cells strongly respond to rewards.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

Still, in this bottom-line business, are the financial rewards keeping pace with the hunger for celebrity docs?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

The East German government cracked down on what little freedom citizens had, offering rewards to people for spying on their neighbors, for reporting any criticism of the government, any escape plans.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

The following summer, the academy graduate was rewarded with a new five-year contract.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

In a world free of geopolitics, "the Manus story would be a simple story of an incredible AI startup getting rewarded with a big exit", Kyle Chan from the Brookings Institution told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Stocks have historically rewarded investors who stay invested for the long term.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Devour some books … and pizza: Pizza Hut’s Book It! program, which rewarded children for reading with personal pan pizzas, is part of the lore of countless childhood readers turned adults.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

In fact, last year I was rewarded for my brashness.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

But creating an objective, fact-based way of measuring this and using it to establish appropriate drug pricing is our best chance to ensure we keep rewarding innovation while making healthcare accessible and affordable to everyone.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

Atlassian, Twilio, JFrog, and Cloudflare surge after earnings, fueling hopes that software investors are rewarding fundamentals again.

From Barron's Aug. 8, 2026

Moving the rock through finer and finer grits is time-consuming, strenuous and not always rewarding.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

“I feel like that’s so much more rewarding than just walking into a Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

A gradual rise in population densities impelled people to obtain more food, by rewarding those who unconsciously took steps toward producing it.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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