Precious
Precious adjective - Commanding a large price.
Treasure and precious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Treasure" instead a noun "Precious".
Nearby Words: preciously, preciosity
Both words in one sentence
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There's a huge treasure chamber in Rudyard Kipling's The Second Jungle Book containing all the gold, jewels and precious artifacts of a now-vanished dynasty.
Source: Treasure Room -
Galvez's most precious possession was a rare treasure from Japan, an indestructible metal case containing the instructions to a great treasure.
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However, it's not quite as Anvilicious as it sounds on the surface — the hiders of the treasure were, at the time, children themselves, who really would find such things precious, and really would be likely to play an elaborate game by "hiding" it as though it were treasure.
Source: Worthless Treasure Twist
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