wholesale
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The company stops short of characterizing the machine as a wholesale replacement for the analog string in all cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Separate reports on consumer and wholesale inflation will come next week.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Higher wholesale gas prices feed through to household energy bills by helping determine regulator Ofgem's price cap.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Most impressively, the wholesale modifications have helped resolve Crow-Armstrong’s greatest weakness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The shipment originated at Ferlite Farms, a monkey wholesale facility located not far from the city of Manila.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Production, exports and wholesales of passenger cars in China all hit fresh highs in November compared with the same month in prior years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Industries such as transportation and wholesales showed double-digit falls in special payments, the data showed.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2023
The vegan and gluten-free doughnut company, owned by Bainbridge Island’s Pegasus Coffee, wholesales to 30 cafes around the Puget Sound, “but we haven’t had our own storefront,” says owner Matt Grady.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
To some extent, the board split reflected different levels of dependence on the imported supplies that Metropolitan wholesales to the Southland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
It would be to their interest to take shares in these wholesales and productive federations, and see that they cater for the farmer's interests as much as for the townsman's.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell
That’s not the narrative being wholesaled by the financial press and investment pundits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
“In a normal situation, there’s some surplus that gets generated when you’re farming,” he said, explaining that the surplus would be wholesaled to other retailers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
He has brokered real estate deals in Florida, arranged bank loans in Venezuela, marketed industrial pumps in Thailand, wholesaled shoes in Panama, promoted a building-materials company to Mexican interests and advised transnational financial services firms.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2015
After that, I started a company that wholesaled mobile phones.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2011
Marketing: In our large apple-growing districts the crop is generally wholesaled, either in the orchard or subject to delivery at the railroad, generally in barrels.
From The Apple by Various
On is attempting a more calibrated approach, neither neglecting its shelf space in retail nor wholesaling so many shoes that prices are undermined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Equipment wholesaling and transportation logistics are service industries that saw big jumps in the April data, a sign that higher oil prices are transitioning into a “second-order effect,” Helfstein says.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
"Services grew a little, with wholesaling, pubs and restaurants and IT companies all doing well, partially offset by falls in accountancy and business rental & leasing," she added.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
Born in 1852, Bruun began to collect coins as a boy in the 1850s and ’60s, years before he began to amass vast riches in the packing and wholesaling of butter.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024
About that time they commenced wholesaling, and gradually built up a business from five thousand dollars the first year, to a million dollars.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Maurice Joblin
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