esteem
Usage
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To esteem is to feel respect combined with a warm, kindly feeling. To appreciate is to exercise wise judgment, delicate perception, and keen insight in realizing the worth of something. To value is to attach importance to a thing because of its worth (material or otherwise). To prize is to value highly and cherish.
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The pair were united by a shared concern for the rights of migrants and held each other in great esteem, despite cultural and religious differences.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Mainstream culture’s relatively lower esteem for the Green Lantern is absolutely related to cartoonish interpretations of his power in live-action depictions.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Reddit has risen in the esteem of many marketers because chatbots turn out to love citing its organic threads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Mentoring played a massive part in my upbringing, and sports teachers and coaches were always held in great esteem.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
Many others earned the esteem of their fellow chemists and physicists even if they fell short of the ultimate honor—a Nobel Prize.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Freaks are scroungers, thrifters, salvagers; they’re unmatched in their ability to repurpose the discarded, to find value in things — and in people — that it sometimes seems nobody else wants or esteems.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
“I know that he esteems her a lot, like all the Jesuits of Argentina and Uruguay, because they consider her their spiritual mother,” Correale told The Associated Press in the runup to the ceremony.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
The great irony, or the sublime absurdity, is that like a priest who practices his faith after the death of God, Daoud esteems Camus even as he exposes the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s blind spots.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015
PEN esteems not only exquisite literature, but also the right of all people to express themselves.
From Slate ● May 6, 2015
Is he not, in fact, confessing that he esteems the play inferior to the novel?
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
But Mull’s highly accomplished work on canvas, held by some very esteemed institutions, shows the influence of people like Robert Rauschenberg and Anselm Kiefer and combines surrealism with subtle social commentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
It was 1955 and Marcus, a 31-year-old associate professor of chemistry still in the early stages of his career, had found an elementary mistake in the work of an esteemed scientist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
"This was science in action!" esteemed melanoma surgeon John Thompson AO said in a statement paying tribute to his friend.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Immigrants lived near the mission, and esteemed Spanish Mexican families lived in large mansions around the churches that dot Old Town in the mid-19th century — many came post-Spanish-Mexican wars.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
I’ll go to the most esteemed music conservatory on the East Coast—the Juilliard School—and from there, it’s only a matter of time before I reach my ultimate goal: first chair in the New York Philharmonic.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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What nudged Americans from esteeming fastidious high-culture figures like Muck to idolizing personally crude pop-culture stars like Ruth?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020
The Russians, esteeming ceremony as a proud proletarian power should, outdid themselves in welcome.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Common sense solves this question by esteeming in the highest degree those who use speech only to express their thought, and despising those who use it to deceive.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet
But we are always learning the old things and esteeming them new.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair
In point of fact, they did not abandon their idea for an hour, esteeming themselves the only men in Paris who had not lost their heads.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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