appraise
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In January, Ho Chi Minh City's Civil Judgment Enforcement Agency said that it was seeking experts to appraise the value of two crocodile skin Hermès Birkin bags seized from Truong My Lan.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
We’re really training him to appraise things at a young age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
The temptation to amuse the audience led him to betray his duty to appraise the work of aspiring artists who tremblingly dared present themselves before His Nasty Majesty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
If your husband wants to appraise his children of your estate plan, he can do that.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026
If you could for a moment rise up out of your own beloved skin and appraise ant, human, and virus as equally resourceful beings, you might admire the accord they have all struck in Africa.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Assuming the property appraises at the higher purchase price, the seller would receive about $2,680 more before commissions and other transaction costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The ceramics and glass expert, with Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers in Edinburgh, joined the BBC programme in 2018 as one of the specialists who appraises objects brought in by members of the public.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
“There is a bid/ask spread just like there is for any other traded asset,” explained Trip Brannen, chief financial officer at Coinfully, a company that appraises and purchases coins.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025
Roberts said the companies will go through an appraisal process to determine the value of Hulu, and that process appraises “a lot more than Hulu,” in his opinion.
From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2023
Any person who believes that the average man marries the woman of his choice just because he wants a housekeeper and a cook, appraises mankind lower than I do.
From In Times Like These by Nellie L. McClung
That is leading investors and fund managers to get struggling projects appraised at fair market value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Looking back, he said it was "quite evident that nobody was fully appraised of the potential hazard that they were exposed to".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The couple isn’t planning on getting the bust appraised due to the high cost of the service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“We plan to sell it to another family member for the appraised value.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
The high-voltage transformers in the courtyard also were showing their age; Brobeck appraised them as “equipment Marconi would have recognized.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Still, Mr. Turley observes, the newly independent Americans’ rage “would prove transformative for many framers in appraising the promise and the perils of democratic systems.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Buffett’s success hinges on his skills as a value investor, “always appraising stocks as fractional-ownership interests in businesses that he planned to hold over the long term,” said the manager of the $23.5 billion fund.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 19, 2025
Referring to guidance from the Treasury on appraising politics, programmes and projects in terms of their financial impact known as the Green Book test, Wearmouth added: "We need to lobby to change that."
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
She wasn't interested to know that Clyde, appraising us from his teeny terrarium, was a near-doppelgänger for the 16 1/2-year-old companion I had lost a few months before.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
Voldemort was gazing at Morfin as though appraising his possibilities.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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