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esteem

verb as in consider; believe to be

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Well-known across the Spanish-speaking world, Colombian comic Santiago Rivas’ political satire is held in high esteem.

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The trouble is that the general social esteem in which people hold science makes it natural for them to make an unhelpful assumption.

This is important because “high public esteem has helped protect the tech industry from critics and regulators, but that shield is weakening,” write Ina Fried and Mike Allen for Axios.

The team was coached by Caleb Martin, a skier from Telluride, Colorado, who held Cummings in high esteem.

That’s the story Gershom Gorenberg restores to memory and esteem in “War of Shadows,” a masterpiece of scholarship and synthesis that also reads like a thriller.

As the director of Freedom Now, I hold Intigam Aliyev in high esteem and have long respected his work as a human-rights lawyer.

But beneath all the shiny esteem, the 25-year-old Wright led a seedy double life.

Around the world, they are held in high esteem, paid professional wages, and often granted tenure in their jobs.

Once a girl's self-esteem is crushed, the effects are far reaching and long lasting.

But before the former First Lady left the Obama Administration, the Tanzanian Ambassador wanted to give her a token of esteem.

Nobody had held his brother in any less esteem for this connection; it was quite the way in the country.

To suddenly discover oneself proficient where failure had been feared increases self esteem and adds to the sum of happiness.

Monsieur de Garnache, if you have no friend at hand to act for you, I shall esteem myself honoured.

The good character of the Irish railways was thus re-established, and they again held their rightful place in public esteem.

This slight acquaintance with the nobility of France did not, however, elevate them in her esteem.

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What are other ways to say esteem?

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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On this page you'll find 160 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to esteem, such as: hold dear, revere, value, venerate, admire, and appreciate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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