precious
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Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
The new section cut a path through Thetford Forest, a vast and precious woodland which is home to several bat species.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026
Uncertainty about the war in Iran injected weakness into precious metals today, analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
Their precious film hadn't been confiscated, but they were more than pleased once their plane out of Rwanda took off.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
Saving precious daylight hours could mean the difference between harvesting the food before the first frost or not, and having enough nourishment for the winter or not.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
Vocabulary lists containing precious
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