Thesaurus results for VALUATIONS

valuations

noun

plural of valuation

as in appraisals

the act of placing a value on the nature, character, or quality of something my valuation of your musical talent has nothing to do with our friendship

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the amount of money for which something will find a buyer the final auction bid was still less than the minimum valuation that we had specified as acceptable, so the painting was withdrawn

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Recent Examples of valuations The market is attempting to judge how long high capital expenditures and elevated valuations surrounding AI can be sustained. — CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 Savio is the only player to appear on both lists, embodying the unreliable nature of transfer valuations. — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026 Teams are turning over at a rapid pace, driving valuations to stratospheric heights. — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026 The sale talks come as valuations of elite sports properties are soaring. — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 24 Aug. 2026 Until recently, the assessor didn’t present arguments to support specific property valuations, leaving the Board of Review’s staff with little to weigh against the appeal. — Alex Nitkin, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026 The debate over artificial intelligence usually centers on software, chips, productivity, employment, and whether technology valuations have moved too far ahead of reality. — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 Startups like Anduril have scaled to decacorn valuations without taking a dollar of traditional PE money, and may skip over Wall Street entirely on their paths to eventually go public. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 20 Aug. 2026

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Lehman, who has a staff of three but wrote the appraisals himself, can choose only a few major battles to fight in a short window.

— Alex Nitkin, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Graziano argues the city appraisals did not use the proper methodology.

— Joshua Ceballos, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of appraisals

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Call it Comer 2035, a vision separate from the system’s broader Elevate 2035 plan that would articulate Comer’s pediatric-specific values and commitments.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Two common ones include beliefs about whether someone will listen and share information and whether someone shares your values.

— John C. Besley, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of values

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Precise estimates of oil passing through the strait are not available, but the volume seems to be somewhere between a quarter and half of the prewar flow of 20 million barrels a day.

— Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026
Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The striking part is how closely those estimates line up with the betting market.

— Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of estimates

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Trump faces mounting pressure to address high gas prices as the war in Iran on Friday reached a six-month milestone with no conclusion in sight.

— Aamer Madhani, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
New research from SellCell tracked trade-in prices across the last three Apple launches.

— Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

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According to initial assessments, a massive chunk of ice snapped off a glacier and tumbled thousands of feet into the valley below.

— Ava Berger, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026
Officials are still investigating the exact cause, though preliminary assessments suggest an ice avalanche may have blocked a river upstream in Tibet, triggering the sudden outburst flood.

— Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of assessments

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In its 37-page report, the AI company documented how its models navigated a series of evaluations before and during the incident.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Hugging Face is a repository that hosts open-source AI models, as well as benchmark evaluations, and data sets used for AI training and testing.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of evaluations

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Newsom and the analysts sometimes differ in their estimations.

— CBS News, CBS News, 30 June 2026
And yet he’s built a collection that, by some estimations, ranks among the top in the country, homing in on grade-A examples of American masters—Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and with a particular focus on Basquiat.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2026

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