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invaluable in English:

1. valuable


Can you spare me a few minutes of your valuable time?
A perfect knowledge of a few writers and a few subjects is more valuable than a superficial one of a great many.
valuable information
Further investigation will offer many opportunities to obtain more valuable knowledge of the ocean.
Chris could not conceal his sadness when he heard that Beth had been unable to find his valuable watch.
Linguistic resources are far more valuable if they are unencumbered by share-alike or viral licences.
So valuable were books that the greatest care was taken of them.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
A valuable object decreases in value if it is damaged.
Much of the riots' coverage was taken from the cell phones of passersby, saving local news outlets valuable film which they would later use for banal "human" "interest" "stories."
I don't think that they are valuable just because they have a large crop, but I'm glad when they sprout in great numbers - even when they are poison mushrooms.
Jack broke his mother's valuable vase, but he didn't do it on purpose, so she wasn't angry.
My time is valuable so I don’t like to waste it.
You'll learn valuable, yet simple, tips on how to change things in your everyday routine
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

English word "invaluable"(valuable) occurs in sets:

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2. value


educational value
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires.
Usually the id and name attributes have the same value applied. (N.B. Not because it matters if they differ but just as a matter of convenience.)
The Koran, far from being inimitable, is a literary work of inferior quality, as it is neither clear, nor understandable, nor does it possess any practical value and is certainly not a revealed book.
When the counter value reaches the assigned 'lucky-number' it displays a congratulatory message.
By averaging the squared difference between each value and the mean and finding the square root of the result, we can find the standard deviation.
Somebody could exchange a sheep or a horse, for example, for anything in the marketplace that they considered to be of equal value.
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
When I reached the hall right away the person in charge unrelentingly said things like "This painting is certain to increase in value in the future," and I went and signed the contract.
I'd like to think that... that you guys see value inwomen's bodies other than just the way they look.
It is the border-line cases that are always in danger: the dignified buildings of the past which may possess no real artistic or historic value, but which people have become sentimentally attached to and have grown to love.
It is generally assumed that fundamental constants such as c have the same value throughout spacetime, meaning that they do not depend on location and do not vary with time.

English word "invaluable"(value) occurs in sets:

Word Formation (Year 3)

3. very useful



4. priceless


The priceless china shattered into fragments.
True friendship is priceless.
This table is a priceless antique.
Youth is such a priceless commodity that it is a shame to waste it on children.
a priceless ring
A trip round the world is a priceless opportunity. You should have seen his face—it was priceless!
priceless memories
priceless antiques, priceless asset
A priceless painting/Ming vase / Of the many works of art lost in the fire, six or seven were thought to have been priceless.
a priceless antique/painting A trip round the world is a priceless opportunity.
After he bumped into the shelf, the priceless china fell and shattered into fragments.
Every once in a while I read about a priceless antique that someone found in their attic.

English word "invaluable"(priceless) occurs in sets:

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5. do most needed things



6. extremely useful



English word "invaluable"(extremely useful) occurs in sets:

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