as in valuing
to make an approximate or tentative judgment regarding
take a moment to appraise the current situation
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Recent Examples of appraising
Roscosmos noted that the mission will assist scientists in appraising how spaceflight affects living organisms, in an environment where radiation levels are approximately 30% higher than other near-Earth orbits.
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Leonard David, Space.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Leonard David, Space.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for appraising
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By valuing each client’s narrative, the firm transforms representation into a partnership, ensuring individuals feel informed and empowered throughout.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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Its increase—up more than 45% over the past year—has outperformed the S&P 500, perhaps suggesting investors are valuing the security of gold more than the riskier equity markets.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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Instead the county was mainly assessing which funding streams would be affected by the shutdown, and developing contingency plans.—
Ronald J. Hansen,
AZCentral.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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For businesses, assessing the actual costs of climate change was too difficult to measure and the damages seemed too far out.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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In 2013, Nature Communications published a study estimating that, in the United States, cats kill somewhere between one and four billion birds each year, and perhaps five times as many small mammals.—
Rebecca van Laer
September 30,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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Most stowaways result in fatalities, with the Federal Aviation Administration estimating more than 76% end in deaths.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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Kinne assumed a lot of the heavy lifting in evaluating transfers and navigating the portal in his first two years on campus as the program was strapped for resources compared to its counterparts.—
Sam Khan Jr,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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If evaluations and grades remain high—and if schools have no independent way of evaluating whether learning has happened—then who’s to say that anything’s different?—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Appraising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appraising. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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