sell
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The vote of five siblings to sell the shares triggered the termination clause in the trust, and the filing argues that the trust doesn’t grant trustees discretion to disregard a valid vote to terminate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
A senior Labour councillor from Cardiff council - which has an agreement to sell the site to the developer - had also objected.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Blocking agents defends Amazon’s ability to advertise and sell directly to consumers—many of whom are Amazon Prime subscribers and won’t change where they shop just because their agents are cut off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
A new flying sports car may be exactly what CEO Elon Musk needs to sell Wall Street on a merger between Tesla and SpaceX.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Indian Tom had about sixty head he wanted to sell; all kinds—horses, mules, ponies, and even a few donkeys.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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Microsoft sells applications and cloud services, giving it opportunities to design infrastructure around work its customers already perform.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Much of those emissions come from burning the hydrocarbons the company produces and sells.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
One such firm is Learning Resources, a family business based near Chicago that sells educational toys.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
J&J said in October 2025 that it planned to separate its DePuy Synthes orthopedics business, which sells hip and knee replacement parts as well as bone-repair devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
“He does. He sells those teeth as good luck charms. Like a rabbit’s foot, y’know?”
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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By August, the fund had returned an additional 13% of clients’ money as it sold more loans and others got paid back, which boosted the percentage of problem loans in the remaining portfolio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Stocks already under pressure sell off even further, while other companies’ stocks are sold just for those tax-loss strategies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
He and fellow Dodgers co-owner Todd Boehly also sold a small stake in English soccer club Chelsea FC last month for about $1.27 billion, the Financial Times reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The growing popularity of the festival meant that many events sold out before the opening day.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
“I’m not going to Baltimore with you, Aunt Kitty. Remember? You’ve already sold my soul to Mrs. Wigginbottom.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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And its strategy for selling them makes it relatively unique among the businesses benefiting most from the world’s unprecedented AI infrastructure build-out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
It has now been six years since the two men spoke, with Ryu going into seclusion and Ken selling out, hawking products like Duracell while signing up for gimmicky bouts unworthy of his talent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Also contributing is quarter-end and year-end tax-loss selling — unloading the worst-performing stocks to lower capital-gains burdens — from mutual funds and individual investors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
To make ends meet at village club Pipinsried, which is about 30 miles from Munich, football-obsessed Hurzeler worked for an art dealer selling paintings to wealthy Bavarians.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
After the parade ends, the street peddlers appear, selling honey-and-fig and rosewater-and-pistachio flavors of ice cream, so refreshing in the unusually warm weather.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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