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  • noun Plural form of appreciation.

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Examples

  • Whether they are NFL institutions or NCAA institutions, my sentiments, my emotions, my affections, and my appreciations is for individuals.

    Al Groh: 'Clearly, the advantage is on the Virginia side' Steve Yanda 2010

  • Karen Kramer and ST VanAirsdale have collected appreciations from a delightfully wide-ranging array of New Yorkers - a former mayor, a celebrity composer, a few programmers and way more than a few filmmakers.

    GreenCine Daily: Woody @ the Reeler. 2006

  • In the many "appreciations" that followed his death Jan. 27, John Updike was distinguished as our guide to the lives of everyday Americans, as though he created a new form of literature.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Thanks to my "appreciations," Sharon kept in drink, bought a new wardrobe, and stopped showing up for her job at the restaurant.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • First, I must point to the very purpose of the NYR: to get away from "appreciations" and back to sincerity in reviewing.

    Soviet Economics Bergson, Abram 1966

  • Swinburne was so violent in his "appreciations" that his essays in criticism are adjectival volcanoes.

    The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century William Lyon Phelps 1904

  • Rendle figured among a dozen somewhat overstudied "appreciations," he offered a copy to Mrs. Memorall; who surprised him, the next time they met, with the announcement that she had sent the book to

    The Muse's Tragedy 1899

  • When, some months later, he brought out his first slim volume, in which the remodelled college essay on Rendle figured among a dozen, somewhat overstudied "appreciations," he offered a copy to Mrs. Memorall; who surprised him, the next time they met, with the announcement that she had sent the book to Mrs. Anerton.

    The Greater Inclination Edith Wharton 1899

  • When, some months later, he brought out his first slim volume, in which the remodelled college essay on Rendle figured among a dozen somewhat overstudied "appreciations," he offered a copy to Mrs. Memorall; who surprised him, the next time they met, with the announcement that she had sent the book to Mrs. Anerton.

    The Muse's Tragedy 1899

  • He died in 1881, and as I do not recall hearing his name at the time of his death or until long afterwards, I must have missed certain articles in the _Athenaeum_ -- two of them admirable "appreciations" by Mr. Watts-Dunton -- and so my state of benightedness was as I have described.

    Immortal Memories Clement King Shorter 1891

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