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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). 

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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

The water supply worker had given the police officer CPR when he collapsed on a bus in April 2020, and netted the huge lottery prize shortly after.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Whichever show ultimately takes the prize, the season seemed like a flashing warning sign indicating that, at the risk of being a wolf-crying boy, the commercial musical theater continues sliding toward life-support levels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

"The Akhal-Teke is a wonderful sport horse," a retired vet, 66-year-old Sapargeldy, told AFP at the prize ceremony, declining to give his surname.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

He is Dr. Bigelow's guest but also his prize specimen.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman




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