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as in reward
something offered or given in return for a service performed a bounty was offered for information leading to the capture of the criminal

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as in yield
the total amount collected or obtained especially at one time the record-breaking bounty from this year's corn harvest

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Recent Examples of bounty My eyes shrunk to slits, trying to spot the glow sticks that The Medellín Cartel had affixed to their bounty, which slowly lit up the water’s surface like fluorescent fireflies. Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025 In a restaurant decorated with Puerto Rican coqui frogs and tropical plants, the chef transforms the bounty of the Pacific Northwest into dishes tracing his family’s path from San Juan to New York City to Seattle, where Reyes grew up. The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025 Authorities said a short while later that the FBI was offering a $100,000 bounty for information that helps crack the case. Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Like fall’s auburn leaves and bounty of crisp apples, checks, in all its iterations, kindle a cozy familiarity suggestive of the season. Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bounty
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bounty
Noun
  • Our expert take The Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card is an excellent business card with useful benefits, valuable rewards and a generous welcome bonus.
    Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Most fast-food chains are also offering freebies or discounts, usually via the rewards app.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • Through these tactics, Iftiu is trying to pay forward the generosity he's received within the system.
    William Jones, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Alongside framing a poetics of wonder and wander, the writings across this trinity of works give us glimpses into how the world taught Oliver to love, a generosity revealed in what has sometimes been seen as lack.
    Natalie Diaz September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The 10-year yield, meanwhile, tracks expectations for economic growth.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • By inserting an extra biochemical cycle into a model plant, the researchers boosted growth, seed yield, and fat production without increasing water demand.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • Each percentage point decrease in a mortgage rate can save thousands or tens of thousands in additional cost each year, depending on the price of the house, according to Rocket Mortgage.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But beef prices soared — up 24% over five years — as drought has thinned herds and production costs have soared.
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Chiu’s philanthropy is getting new artists into the Crocker and helping the museum continue to diversify its ranks – efforts that predate Floyd’s death, according to Scott Shields, the Ted and Melza Barr Chief Curator and Associate Director for the Crocker.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Guidance on philanthropy or running a family foundation may also be important to you.
    Andy Busser, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • These incremental improvements, conducted during the downtime in between various data-taking runs, have enabled LIGO to increase its haul of merging black holes from that first event, seen in 2015, to hundreds of events as of 2025.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 17 Sep. 2025
  • VanEtten said his haul occasionally includes crocodile and alligator teeth.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The formula gets bonus points for not feeling sticky, not traveling or feathering, and smoothing out lip lines for a plump, pouty effect.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The major infusion of purse money and track improvements at Kentucky Downs has been a real bonus for the Thoroughbred racing circuit in Kentucky.
    Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Bounty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bounty. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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