as in prize
something given in recognition of achievement
encouraging Girl Scouts to sell more cookies by offering premiums
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as in expensive
commanding a large price
lavish feasts at which premium wines flowed freely
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Recent Examples of premium
Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, teams at the bottom of the financial table are generating $500,000 per game, including premium seating.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Kathryn Streeter, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Competitors have been racing in recent years to keep up with premium offerings.
—AFAR Media, 23 Oct. 2025
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Noun
This allows tighter alignment between hardware and software performance while eliminating vendor premiums.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, teams at the bottom of the financial table are generating $500,000 per game, including premium seating.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Expect champagne, premium loose-leaf tea and towers of treats.
—Kathryn Streeter, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Competitors have been racing in recent years to keep up with premium offerings.
—AFAR Media, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for premium
Noun
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Marchand has offered one of his jerseys as a raffle prize, which is up for auction online.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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The ambitious new festival, which has a total prize pot of more than $300,000, will take place in various locations across Doha, including the Katara Cultural Village, Msheireb Downtown Doha and the Museum of Islamic Art.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Zettel then decided renting a hotel room for the night would be too expensive and let her daughter sleep in her car instead.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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In the aftermath of the expensive blunder, Schwarzman was quickly pulled aside by an investor.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Diane Brady is an award-winning business journalist and author who has interviewed newsmakers worldwide and often speaks about the global business landscape.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
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The season after Hazan shared his concerns with me, Beasley had a career year, finishing second in the league in three-pointers made and emerging as a finalist for the league’s Sixth Man of the Year award.—
Danny Funt,
New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Even Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI—the world’s most valuable private company—recently echoed that sentiment after becoming a father.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
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These were mysterious and valuable.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Federal investigation reveals wide criminal net Browse the website of Chen’s Prince Group, and the company’s public image is one of charitable endeavors, business accolades and awards for corporate social responsibility initiatives, large donations to anti-Covid efforts, and education programs.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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Awarded writers and filmmakers received accolades from industry partners including AMC Networks, Enderby Entertainment, Josephson Entertainment and the Writers Guild of America East.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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If proven at scale, this technique could shift how nations approach soil restoration – moving away from costly cleanup projects toward systems that regenerate from within.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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Known as one of the costliest wars in history, the death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers has been attributed to battle, as well as starvation, cold and a typhus epidemic that broke out.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Johnson’s early performance led to him earning second-team midseason Associated Press All-America honors.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Oct. 2025
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And even though those consequences are, in the grand scheme of things, nothing as big as what their conduct might demand, the fact that Andrew had to give up his royal titles and honors is more than a lot of people expected.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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After the robbery, the Louvre has since transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France's most secure vault in Paris, the BBC reported.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Upon entering the gilded gallery, the thieves used power tools to cut into the glass cases to reach the precious jewels, investigators said.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Premium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/premium. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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