prizing 1 of 2

verb (1)

present participle of prize
1
as in prying
to draw out by force or with effort prizing the stubborn nails out of the board

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2
as in pulling
to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever trying to prize apart the jammed gears

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prizing

2 of 2

verb (2)

present participle of prize
as in valuing
to hold dear veterinarians know that pets are highly prized by their owners

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Recent Examples of prizing
Verb
The regime has been hollowed out by decades of negative selection—the result of rewarding mediocrity and prizing ideological loyalty over competence. — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026 Rather than prizing animals for their beauty, their virile traits or their straight-up cool characteristics, frogposting is all about vulnerable animals—the dweebs of the animal kingdom. — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025 Waters, who opened the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse in 1971, is the chef most closely identified with the farm-to-table movement, which shares an affinity with MAHA in prizing sustainably grown, locally sourced whole foods; from that same soil grew the farm-to-school movement. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prizing
  1. prying
  2. pulling
  3. valuing
  4. extracting
  5. loving
  6. yanking
  7. appreciating
  8. plucking
Verb
  • Netflis is keeping the logline a hop, skip and a jump from prying eyes but it is known to be a mother-daughter story involving teleportation.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2026
  • This $10 option comes with three privacy glass screen protectors that will shield your screen from damage and prying eyes at the same time.
    — Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of prying
Verb
  • That said, pulling one off takes a bit more intention than simply slipping it on.
    — Alyssa Rotunno, InStyle, 10 Aug. 2026
  • By pulling the air over its surface, the system prevents airflow separation that normally limits conventional sails.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of pulling
Verb
  • Organizations frequently fall short, despite valuing open information flow.
    — Gary Zammit, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Fernandez’s future is still uncertain at the club, with Chelsea leaving him off the ‘not for sale’ list this summer and valuing the 25-year-old at £120million ($161m).
    — Simon Johnson, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of valuing
Verb
  • These platforms function less like traditional capitalist firms than feudal estates, extracting rent from businesses, creators, and users who have little choice but to operate on their terrain.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The humidor carries more than 10,000 cigars, and King makes every cocktail in-house — down to growing his own herbs and extracting his own vanilla bean.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of extracting
Verb
  • For instance, as a Christian, I am called to vote for doing justice, making peace, loving mercy, being humble, doing good and resisting evil and, most of all, loving my neighbor, whoever that is.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The trouble starts when knowing a product turns into loving it.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of loving
Verb
  • The episode feinted toward genuine rapprochement before yanking the rug out, leaving the Gang pelted with an industrial-grade indoor blizzard and then happily chucking rocks at passing trains, as was Mac and Charlie’s childhood tradition.
    — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
  • The tentacular Scylla is seen briefly but makes an impact, yanking sailors off Odysseus’s ship in a series of loud jump scares.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 July 2026
Definition of yanking
Verb
  • These questions shift your focus from running the business to intentionally building an appreciating asset.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • In fact, the country’s famous pura vida philosophy encourages experiencing wellness at a slower pace and appreciating the present, according to Simon Jones, the CEO of international tour company Trafalgar.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of appreciating
Verb
  • Dramatic photos taken from the scene show a firefighter on a tower ladder plucking a panicked child from a fire escape.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Now, Yupia appears on Khramov’s debut album, where the horse literally makes music by strumming guitars with his nose and plucking strings with his teeth.
    — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of plucking

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