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prize

adjective as in worthy of a prize; best

noun as in goal; best

verb as in value highly

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Example Sentences

There’s a reality TV competition show in the works that will feature a 2023 trip to the International Space Station as the grand prize, Deadline reports.

It went on to win sci-fi writing’s most prestigious prize, the Hugo Award.

From Quartz

Whether for a prize or a meal, these animals met their end when they came face-to-face with humans on a scale they never could’ve handled.

Organizers said those prizes will be replaced with a Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance and a Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance.

From Fortune

The organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival say they will stop awarding separate acting prizes to women and men beginning next year.

From Fortune

Fred Logevall at Cornell won the Pulitzer Prize and is a diplomatic historian; he just started a book on Kennedy.

So I remember when Altman won the prize, he went up and said some version of, “Too little, too late.”

The prize will not be replaced if lost, mutilated, or stolen.

This week, on December 10th, Human Rights Day, she will receive the Nobel Prize—the youngest person ever to be honored.

While the winners will take home the prize money and title, the eliminated contestants can hardly be considered losers.

To add point to this success, he knew that the victor of Montebello was straining every nerve to gain this very prize.

Whoever succeeded in getting the ring on his stick won the game, and carried the prize home as a sign of victory.

Ike had read the "Herald," with all about "the great prize fight" in it, and had become entirely carried away with it.

Never before had so dazzling a prize shimmered before him in the near distance.

It is almost unnecessary to add, that the porter had his share well paid, and that the fisherman got the full value for his prize.

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When To Use

What are other ways to say prize?

To prize is to value highly and cherish. To appreciate is to exercise wise judgment, delicate perception, and keen insight in realizing the worth of something. To esteem is to feel respect combined with a warm, kindly feeling. To value is to attach importance to a thing because of its worth (material or otherwise). 

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On this page you'll find 206 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prize, such as: outstanding, topnotch, champion, choice, cream, and elite.

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

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