prize
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Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations, provides insight into how the team acquired Tarik Skubal, the biggest prize of the trade deadline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Season 2 starts with her realizing she’s probably better off free of her mystery prize.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
The events celebrate farming, rural life and local food and feature competitions where prize livestock is put on show and judged.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
In most of the events, the players compete as both individuals and on teams of four, with some prize money awarded to both competitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
But now that he was on a mission so focused on finding such a long-sought-after prize, he realized that the tall piece of wood could well have been a mast.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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The arrangement would give Pacific Coast Energy access to several oil fields, including some identified as among the country’s most prized, the person said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Those were the prized possessions that three America's Got Talent judges watched a former Blue Peter presenter appear to smash with a hammer.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The battle over Warner Brothers began last year, when media giants Netflix and Paramount went to war over the famed movie studio and its prized back catalog.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
“It followed me home,” Haaland wrote in an Instagram post that also included a photo of himself carrying his new prized possession.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
My Abue, she will for certain share with Serafina her remedies—which herbs are the most useful, the most potent, the most prized for this work before them.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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The Monster survey showed recent grads are prizing job security over career growth.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026
And maybe, like we did back then, we can say sure, yes, while prizing every tomato we harvest and understanding that we don't have the staff to hold back the inevitable weed takeover.
From Salon ● May 21, 2023
The cases highlight differences, often misconstrued as religion-based, between centuries-old immigrants’ cultural traditions and Western values prizing individualism.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
There is a fundamental American tension between prizing individual achievement and promoting the collective spirit of the nation’s egalitarian promise, between the call to be colorblind and the call not to be blind to racism.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Another thing I had in common with crows: our habit of prizing the poorest of riches.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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Citizen detectives like Diarra Brickland, who arranges her messy life around ensuring that the people and prizes typically overlooked or quietly erased by the mainstream keep being seen, are even less common.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
In common with many value investors, Lapping prizes patience.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Spain and Lamine Yamal have grown through the tournament to leave him with the world at his feet and football's two greatest prizes in his pocket.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
ADI Predictstreet is committed to giving out prizes “fairly and transparently,” the spokesman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Gross, who is sixty-five, also prizes his two diamond pinkie rings, his racks of cashmere sweaters, and his Mercedes CLK 430.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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