PRIZES Synonyms: 161 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of prize

as in gems

someone or something unusually desirable in the view of most of her friends, her current boyfriend is certainly no prize

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as in awards

something given in recognition of achievement the Pritzker Architecture Prize is the world's most prestigious honor in the field of architecture

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prizes

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verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of prize

as in extracts

to draw out by force or with effort prizing the stubborn nails out of the board

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as in pries

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

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prizes

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verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of prize

as in treasures

to hold dear veterinarians know that pets are highly prized by their owners

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Recent Examples of prizes

Noun

Alicia and Darrell Cortez recently arrived at Shirakawa Elementary School in San Jose bearing books and the promise of prizes. — Sharon Chin, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 Here’s how to play and win prizes at small Sacramento businesses while getting an early start on holiday shopping. — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Congratulations to Zane Li, who has now won enough young-designer prizes to have something like an EGOT, and to Aisling Camps and Emily Dawn Long, who are this year’s runners-up. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 21 Oct. 2026 There will be free play and tournament-style competitions during the event, the Chiefs said, with an opportunity to win prizes. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026 Foyles Educational supplied textbooks and prizes to schools, and the library department provided a similar service for public libraries. — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026 The whole affair had a playfully casual mood, with Edwards casually eating his dinner while presenting the prizes and gleefully razzing the winners during their acceptance speeches. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026 Mongolian-German feature Zogsool was the big winner in the Vision Awards at this year’s Busan International Film Festival, taking four prizes including the Vision of Jiseok Award. — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026 Its official selection had 30 projects from 17 countries, and eight of them shared prizes across 11 categories. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

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The punch-worthy parody of Altman’s characterization ramps up once he’s motivated to push back against — or trample over — the safety guardrails that Ilya prizes above all else, but so does the depth of his world-breaking cynicism. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026 Religion has harmed many; people fear proselytizing; soul language can sound fuzzy or exclusionary; literary culture prizes the secular and intellectual. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026 Vagmaxxing seems the logical offshoot of a trend that prizes unreasonable, unrealistic body modification to the point of impossible AI perfection and transhumanism—scary enough! — Valerie Monroe, Allure, 21 Sep. 2026 That is not always a comfortable position in a sector that prizes growth above almost everything else. — Quentin Bordage, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026 Expect coffee shops doubling as gallery spaces, indie venues hosting weekend shows and a community that prizes individuality. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 11 May 2026 Traits once seen as stabilizing — empathy, humility, shame — are recast as liabilities in a world that prizes speed, dominance and certainty. — Sarah Davanzo, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026 This brand prizes its collections on ingenuity and takes inspiration from the opulent interiors across Soho Houses around the world, and this piece is proof. — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 28 Apr. 2026 Those were some of the 19 Michigan Lottery prizes worth at least $100,000 won or claimed in February. — Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 28 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prizes

Noun

And its milk chocolate gems are like M&M’s but colored with real foods like beet juice and spirulina.

— Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
That's not every one of them, but there's always a little fool's gold hiding among the real gems.

— Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of gems

Noun

But for audiences outside North America, catching Nathan Fielder’s three-hour documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes — now expected to be a major player in awards season — has become a frustrating waiting game.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Every awards season brings a late-breaking Timothée Chalamet vehicle.

— Radhika Seth, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026

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Verb

Mildren’s latest product, the Micro Honey Harvester, is a compact, rechargeable device that extracts honey from spinning honeycomb cassettes.

— Derek Rose, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Backed by more than 150 patents, the approach extracts lithium from mineral-rich brines and refines it into materials suitable for batteries.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of extracts

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By fields of cotton and soybeans where his bees forage and pollinate, Foster Hensel pries open the lid of one of his beehives, setting off a rising hum from inside.

— Drew Hawkins, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
Remove the 11 Philips-head screws on the bottom of the laptop, and its bottom pries up with a bit of pressure.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of pries

Noun

Kate Middleton paired a butter yellow Elie Saab gown with historic royal jewels at Tuesday night’s state banquet for Sultan Haitham bin Tarik of Oman at Windsor Castle.

— Julia Teti, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026
Her jewels for the evening included her go-to royal headpiece, Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot Tiara, as well as earrings and a bracelet that belonged to the late Queen Elizabeth.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2026

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Over the course of her long career, Curtis, 67, has developed a lengthy résumé in film and television, winning numerous accolades along the way, including an Oscar and an Emmy (she’s been nominated for a Grammy too — there’s still time for an EGOT).

— Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Women who've accepted their past mistakes aren't used to accepting accolades.

— Noel Brennan, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026