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esteem

[ih-steem] / ɪˈstim /




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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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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

Her colleagues’ execution of Sosa, she bemoaned, “marks yet another low point in this court’s esteem for its precedents.”

From Slate Jun. 24, 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

“The NBA should desire to protect and esteem women, many of whom work diligently every day to make this the best basketball league in the world,” Kornet wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 2, 2026

Even now, she acknowledged, “affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

He esteems you so highly, Prince; he is so sincerely attached to you!”

From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In a country that esteemed practicality, fiction was enlisted to speak directly to a cause.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 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

The 36-year-old, who co-ran the esteemed Fulgurances restaurant in Paris and New York before opening Gigi's this month, said his pricing falls in line with industry standards.

From Barron's Apr. 28, 2026

He joins esteemed company in Jack Nicklaus, Sir Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods, who also donned the Green Jacket in successive years.

From BBC Apr. 12, 2026

Lincoln’s responsible bodyguard William Crook had a more esteemed career, working in the White House for more than fifty years—a time that spanned the administrations of Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

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

With an education so neglected as mine, I should run the hazard of either unjustly depreciating my own judgment, or what is worse, esteeming it at more than its worth.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever

She would sometimes accept an invitation to stay and take tea with them, all esteeming it a delight to entertain her—she was so kind-hearted and showed such an interest in them and their affairs.

From Mildred's New Daughter by Martha Finley

A controversy was maintained for some time, with the result that the crown, lightly esteeming the value of the find, permitted private exploitation of the mines on a basis of ten per cent royalty.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson




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