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prize

[prahyz] / praɪz /






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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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Players will also have the chance to enter a prize draw to win an official World Cup football signed by members of the BBC World Cup team.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

The reaction that powers the sun has long been considered the ultimate clean-energy prize.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

“Schmigadoon!” fended off the competition to take the night’s top prize along with awards for both its book and score by Cinco Paul.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

When “The Traitors” executive producer Mike Cotton and his colleagues brought the first season of Peacock’s reality competition to American audiences, doing so with a cast of unknowns scheming for a six-figure prize seemed risky.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Decades later, the prize was awarded to a clockmaker, John Harrison.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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