fetch
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Five years later, seats only would fetch around $1 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
What U.S. media rights to the 2030 and 2034 World Cup tournaments could fetch, according to some TV and media executives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
An album of original bird watercolours by William Weston Young are expected to fetch up to £25,000.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Also new to the story is Independence, Kan., itself, which in the book is an offstage place to which Pa will sometimes go to fetch necessities, disappearing from the story until he returns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Come back, come back, I silently begged the American who had gone to fetch his superior.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Thrifted Wilt Chamberlain jacket fetches $89,600 at auction.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Once-cheap furniture now fetches thousands of dollars on the resale market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Assuming it fetches $400 million, the mansion tax alone would be $23.8 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
With inflation soaring, the dollar now fetches about 480 pesos, making his monthly income worth less than $10.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
Mohammad fetches a doctor, who sits next to me.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
Last year a 210kg bluefin tuna caught in South West waters fetched more than £2,000 at auction.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Collectors pay up for rare, vintage products like waffle irons and garden gnomes; a Grateful Dead pan fetched $4,100 in an auction at the Lodge Museum in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
BHP fetched 35% more for the copper it sells versus the year prior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
An animated Gabriel the Toad character and an illustration of Nogbad firing a cannon at the Ice Dragon both fetched £4,200.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Robbie fetched his jacket and cap from the bedroom.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
The price tag some vintage graphic T-shirts were fetching at a recent ThriftCon clothing convention in New York City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Edinburgh's own Duke of Wellington statue, outside Register House in the city centre, was spotted sporting fetching, orange headwear earlier this week.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
On both occasions, the now shaven-headed "Pulp Fiction" icon wore fetching French berets, a white one for his award and a black one for the premiere of his semi-autobiographical movie, "Propeller One-Way Night Coach".
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
The $400 pocket watches, sold only in stores, resold for up to $6,500 on eBay, with a full set fetching $27,900.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
“I’m not going to spend all my time fetching and carrying. I came to this Fair to enjoy myself, not to deliver papers.”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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