appraise
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His rings appraise for $50,000 to $250,000, though the market can push them higher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Ms. de Graaf is similarly skeptical of the question’s usefulness and helpfully describes what she calls “epistemic” rationality: It involves “the way you appraise reality. Maybe you appraise it differently from other people.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
If your husband wants to appraise his children of your estate plan, he can do that.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026
YouTube Recap doesn't just appraise your music tastes, but all those weird cat videos you watched in the middle of the night instead of sleeping.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
The policeman turned to appraise his prisoner in the backseat.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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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
We follow her gaze as she studies, appraises and, with a frown, corrects her work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
He appraises himself as a man of limited vocabulary and occasional malapropism.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
He was not in the least the kind of young man who appraises passing women, very far from a starer.
From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort
Advisers are helping clients minimize their tax hits through strategies like harvesting capital losses and getting struggling projects appraised.
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
My house was appraised at $1.8 million, and we could sell it and downsize if I needed the equity.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026
This collection of notable happenings, updated every week, will keep you up appraised of ways to join the celebrations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
His eyes appraised me, taking in the damp hair, the tattered shirt.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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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
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
Star, meanwhile, said Mrs Macron had "great talent" when appraising her performance.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
The Queen had no intention of keeping him for long, but he was so different from her many courtiers, with their elegant clothes and cool, appraising blue eyes.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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