consignment

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Alouette’s attempts to reclaim her work as her own instead of her father’s result in her consignment to Salpêtrière.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

Called Athena, the technology proposes item descriptions, suggests pricing and, crucially for a company that receives millions of goods a year to sell on consignment, helps discern authentic products from fakes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

But Saturday's consignment was the first of reprocessed uranium to be observed for three years, it added.

From Barron's • Nov. 16, 2025

Only one consignment arrived with false documents in 2022, it added, and that all dogs brought in before and since had had fully legitimate paperwork.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2025

A carter had just finished loading a consignment of coconuts and was sitting by his cart, eating spicy chickpeas from a paper cone.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook