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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Appreciation means valuing the struggle of learning, not despite its difficulty but because of it.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Other streamers have found their own ways to account for expensive new sports rights, valuing games’ ability to bring in supplemental audiences who have proven likely to stick around.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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This means regularly assessing your thinking skills, consciously choosing when to engage versus delegate mental tasks, and maintaining practices that keep your mind sharp.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Vaccine safety Federal health experts continuously monitor VAERS and other safety surveillance systems, exhaustively assessing the safety of vaccines.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Series 11 should last longer, with Apple estimating 24 hours of use on a charge.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 Sep. 2025
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Airlines faced massive deficits after 9/11, with the Air Transport Association estimating losses of $10 billion in the immediate aftermath.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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This includes identifying outdated customizations, unused fields and redundant processes, as well as evaluating whether a single-org, multi-org or hybrid strategy best fits your business.—
Buyan Thyagarajan,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Imagine calculating every possible way billions of Lego bricks could fit together – that’s the scale of complexity physicists face when evaluating the configurational integral.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Appraising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appraising. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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