worths

plural of worth
as in values
the amount of money for which something will find a buyer one surefire way to determine the actual worth of a painting is to sell it at auction

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Recent Examples of worths The stock rout of the past 24 hours may have wiped billions from the net worths of the world’s wealthiest people. — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026 Under the initiative, a one-time five percent tax would’ve been imposed on the state’s 200-ish billionaires with net worths above $1 billion. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2026 Break it down ❓Forbes released its annual report of the richest people in the United States, with net worths in the tens of billions of dollars. — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026 Voters in his home state of California will vote on a billionaires' tax this fall, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on Californians with net worths of $1 billion or more. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026 As funds funnel toward AI startups, Dacombe is one of a growing number of (really) young founders hitting billion-dollar net worths. — Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 The eye-popping gains of Nvidia, Micron, Alphabet and other AI stocks have helped inflate the net worths of millions of Americans by lifting the value of their retirement nest eggs, college savings plans and brokerage accounts. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026 When pinning down the right amount to apply, expert advise two easy visual aids—opt for squeezing out a nickel size amount, or two finger length worths of product. — Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 17 July 2026 Indeed, Utah’s Mitt Romney and Virginia’s Mark Warner both have net worths north of $200 million. — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026
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values
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  • The backstory The first Mandarin Oriental hotel—then called The Mandarin—opened its doors in Hong Kong in 1963 and has remained central to the hotel group’s core values, despite global expansion.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2026
  • There’s nostalgia and old world values as well as breaks from conventional and subtle sociopolitical commentary.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 Nov. 2026

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“Worths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worths. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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