appreciation
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The small-estate expectation for real estate is $750,000, and your $1 million property would definitely fall outside of that, not even accounting for price appreciation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
He and other market organizers passed out refreshments to the vendors — tokens of appreciation for coming back outside amid continuing uncertainty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
I could say that lately I’ve been regarding the things I find nourishing with renewed appreciation.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Mitsotakis, however, congratulated Nolan on the film's "great box office success" and expressed appreciation that a significant part of the production was filmed in Greece.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
They talked about the dead man’s return and the bride’s hat they had given one of the girls as a token of their appreciation.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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The report referenced “birthday celebrations, employee appreciations, baby showers, and flowers for a selective few, including executive leadership.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
So rarely was she profiled that the obituaries and appreciations tend to recycle the same quotes from a rare interview she gave to the Boston Globe in 1987.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
These are not mutually exclusive appreciations of this gown, but I brought to the discussion my research on abolitionist visual culture and read it through that lens.
From Slate ● May 4, 2023
It’s the usual way of appreciations to speak of somebody in the past tense.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023
Among the rudest men the appreciations are no higher than among inferior gregarious animals.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.
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