Precious in example sentence

With much of the water in its rivers, lakes, and aquifers unfit for human consumption, pristine water has become the new oil for China – a precious and vital resource, the overexploitation of which risks wrecking the natural environment.

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So it's a very precious thing that we're using to dye our foods.

These are precious to us, these divides.

If there is one thing BP's watery improv act made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.

So once again, why do we take these crazy risks with the precious?

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