Example Sentences

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Before the fires, the value of their property had appreciated to $1.2 million, though Ford still owes nearly $500,000 on the house after his father refinanced several times.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

The $468 billion more that these endowments would be worth today is calculated on the assumption that endowments over the last two decades had appreciated at an 8.8% annualized rate, rather than 6.7%.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 14, 2025

Mr Sunak was filmed arriving and the King told him how much he had appreciated all the messages he had received and his admiration for cancer charities.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2024

Blackstone had said its corporate private-equity funds had appreciated by 2.8% while liquid credit funds gained 3%.

From Reuters • May 4, 2023

Now she remembered how indifferent she had been to his wishes, how careless of his comforts; how little she had valued his love, had appreciated his cheerfulness, his kindness, his forbearance, his equable temper.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)