as in expensive
commanding a large price
an extremely valuable diamond necklace
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Recent Examples of valuable
Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 10 Nov. 2025
Our partners are long-term, valuable partners.
—Jennie Bell, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2025
Andrew Paul Aug 7, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
And don’t leave your valuables lying around where they can be spotted through a window.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 31 July 2025
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Adjective
Mantero, meanwhile, found the pilot questionnaire valuable for its consistency.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 10 Nov. 2025
Our partners are long-term, valuable partners.
—Jennie Bell, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
Survivors who couldn’t find ways to leave the area were stuck there, while wanderers likely arrived to scour for valuables and other items left behind.
—Andrew Paul Aug 7, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
And don’t leave your valuables lying around where they can be spotted through a window.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for valuable
Adjective
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If auto insurance with one carrier is more expensive than with another, a discount may not offset the difference.—
Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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Why are consumers facing more expensive Affordable Care Act health insurance?—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Brendan Fraser played the dashing hero Rick O’Connell, a treasure hunter and former Captain of the French Foreign Legion.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Nov. 2025
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In the film, little Rory needs to save her father who’s disappeared on a treasure quest during an unfortunate encounter with a dragon.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Norwood also argued that the company did not look at other less costly options.—
Sydney Sasser,
Arkansas Online,
7 Nov. 2025
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The production has been costly, so results need to be good for the show, which comes from the same creatives behind High Water – a show about a huge central European flood in 1997.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Yet the president himself has repeatedly framed them as a financial windfall — a de facto funding stream bypassing Congress’s power of the purse.—
James Sample,
ABC News,
5 Nov. 2025
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Advertisement But while more efficient monetization of natural resources would provide a shot in the arm, the crux is leveraging that windfall to diversify the economy beyond extractive industries—futureproofing economies for when commodity prices drop.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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To what end should the precious removal capacity be deployed?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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The site features crosses of increasing sizes with a cruciform pit containing precious ritual artifacts at its center.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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That has been an amazing find for us.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
10 Nov. 2025
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Score an outfit that works for the office, holiday parties, and everything in between by shopping my finds from $13.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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For premium deodorants, the brand can make 50-60 percent margins, and on top of that, the retailer may make 20-25 percent in many cases.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
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Beyond its home market, Hongqi is eyeing expansion into Europe and the Middle East, aiming to position the HS6 as a serious contender in the premium hybrid SUV segment.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Although direct fiber connections to homes are still the fastest and most reliable way to get online, Starlink is a godsend for those of us in rural locations.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 Nov. 2025
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Its hot water function makes quick work of sticky messes on the floor (a godsend in my house, since my kids have taken to tipping plates with maple syrup onto the floor) and the steam cleaning setting easily clears deeper stains and eliminates odors.—
Editors of Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Valuable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/valuable. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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