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treasure

[trezh-er] / ˈtrɛʒ ər /




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"Every brain," says Folkerth, "is a treasure chest of new knowledge."

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

"Tennis is very important to me, but I have a life outside of that. I have to treasure tennis in the way that I can, which is not putting too much importance on it."

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

“There’s this whole treasure of older talent not being utilized,” said Colby, now 69.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

How could anyone treasure something so gauche in this bougie travel era of lie-flat seats and $1,000 a night hotels, right?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

The sooner they found the treasure, the quicker they could save Zheng before something happened to him.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

In return, the museum is loaning treasures including from the Sutton Hoo hoard as well as the Lewis chess pieces, made from walrus ivory in the 12th Century.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Other treasures on view include a charred 18th-century Torah scroll that survived the British ransacking of a synagogue, George Washington’s inaugural chair and Bible, and a New York printing of the Declaration of Independence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The deposit, reputed to be the largest in Africa, is one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's hidden treasures -- which are at the centre of a global race for critical minerals.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Sometimes it takes a visitor or six million to remind folks of treasures in their own backyard.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

“We have no treasures to bargain with,” Taran said in dismay.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

I also saw a life, a career, and a marriage I treasured, and imagined all of the ways in which having a child would compromise what I had spent decades building.

From Slate Jul. 6, 2026

When my clients were displaced, they had treasured photos of deceased loved ones destroyed, lifesaving medication thrown away, and bikes and uniforms needed for work tossed into trash trucks.

From Slate Jun. 27, 2026

Buffett, 95, has helped raise more than $50 million for Glide, a treasured cause of his first wife, Susie Buffett, who died in 2004.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

Her statement went on: "We want to work with government to establish a permanent long-term plan that will deliver permanently lower bills, a fairer system and ultimately protect this treasured sector."

From BBC May 4, 2026

Cold and hard it seemed as his grip closed on it: the phial of Galadriel, so long treasured, and almost forgotten till that hour.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

"I hope you can now move on with your life, remembering the boys as you knew them, and treasuring the happy times you spent with them."

From BBC Apr. 11, 2025

Fill each pear with a scoop of ice cream, drizzle with honey, top with several grinds of pepper and eat immediately while treasuring the trees, the bees, summertime, life in general — all of it.

From Seattle Times Aug. 1, 2023

The two are honorary starters for Sunday’s race - “Kurt will wave the green flag two-thousandths of a second after Ricky,” raceway president Kerry Tharp quipped - and will keep treasuring their moment.

From Washington Times May 12, 2023

If we could, we might agree to have all trauma wiped away, and have selective memory only treasuring the good parts of the past.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2022

“My poor dear Harriet! and have you actually found happiness in treasuring up these things?”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen




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