- present participle of fetch.
fetching
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The three items were sold to a British private collector at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in the Cotswolds on Wednesday, fetching a hammer price of £5,000 - double the estimate.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
At this level, interns aren’t fetching coffee; they are auditioning for full-time jobs with base salaries around $300,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Processing tomatoes — those used in products such as canned diced tomatoes and ketchup — are also fetching lower prices than they did a few years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
She was also one of the most expensive, with one of her "infinity net" paintings fetching nearly $8 million at a 2019 auction.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Oh, come on. It’s just that I’ve been fetching a lot lately, and I’m busy with Ess. She won’t be any help in the tide pools, and she still can’t swim.”
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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