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fetching

adjective as in alluring, attractive

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“This one is fetched pretty far, but somehow I still find it fetching,” he writes of one design.

Faced with Woolf’s criticisms, we find ourselves in a fetching literary intrigue.

While gold bullion is fetching more than $4,300 a troy ounce for the first time, mining shares are pricing in gold in the low- to mid-$3,000s, say analysts.

The index trades at one of its widest historical discounts, fetching about 14 times forward earnings compared with the S&P 500’s 23.

At the same time, more in-demand domain names are auctioned off, with some fetching hundreds of thousands of US dollars.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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