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prize

[prahyz] / praɪz /






Usage

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). 

Example Sentences

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A dictator who built himself a trophy six times bigger than the actual prize.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

Ticket reseller and prize scams can land in your email inbox or messaging apps like Telegram.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

That is the real prize, and it evaporates the instant one man tries to seize it all.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

He wondered if Spess would remember their mutual pledge that the winner would share the prize.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville




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