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were valuing

  • past progressive of value.

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Catherine called on business leaders to re-think their workplaces and create a different kind of model for their priorities, in which companies were "valuing time and tenderness just as much as productivity and success".

From BBC Nov. 18, 2025

Rappers were sampling his records, and, with the revival of vinyl in recent years, collectors were valuing them.

From New York Times Aug. 25, 2022

But he passed, because he thought they were valuing Stripe too high, and because he knew just how hard it is to make a go of it as a payments company.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2018

All the agents insisted that when they were valuing properties, the asking price had no influence on their judgment.

From Slate Dec. 23, 2013

Holding her there, he was magnanimously compensating me with a gun, as though we were making a trade in which the profit were mine, as though he were valuing her in money.

From David Malcolm by Lloyd, Nelson