pawn
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Her mother would often pawn the family’s possessions for money, she told Jackson, and never get them back.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
"With this research, we're basically taking a major pawn out of the Ordovician Meteor Event and dumping it into the Frasnian-Famennian event, and saying, 'This is where this impact belongs,'" she said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Ezcorp boosted its presence in the higher-end market in 2022 by acquiring luxe pawn operator Max Pawn Luxury.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The early pieces that established his reputation were dioramas of local spots around Grangeville, such as a tattoo parlor, a pawn show and a Dairy Queen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
“We gonna have to go to the pawn shop right quick.”
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
He’d always say I was too aggressive with my pawns and that I wasn’t afraid to lose them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Our job is to educate those people about how they’re being pushed around like pawns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
Players roll a dice to move their pawns across the board, with each landing spot corresponding to cards containing questions or instructions to act out disaster-specific responses.
From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025
But they insisted, as did their clients, that they were unwitting pawns, proxies – one might even say "drones" – in a shadow war against the West.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
His vision returned and Nathan saw the dead pawns, beautiful rugs and dazzling jewelry.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
She has noted that he is difficult to manage, so I figured she just pawned him off on me now that the company has scaled up.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Gaud comes from Ghuwara, a small town in central India, and her mother once pawned her jewellery to buy one of her first cricket kits.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Kilroe, being the veteran executive he was, did the obvious: He pawned the request onto someone else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
It was named for Barney Pressman, who in 1923 pawned his wife’s ring, at her encouragement, for $500 to buy the lease of a small store on Seventh Avenue and 17th Street in Manhattan.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
The terrified mother pawned the cornet immediately and destroyed the pawn ticket.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Some of them are dodging rodents and pawning power tools just to stay afloat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
She’s hoping to avoid pawning something or paying a bill late.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
I offended an acolyte who caught me pawning off the dessert basket she brought me to a neighbor, and insulted a coworker who’d gifted me holiday champagne by saying, “Don’t you know I don’t drink?”
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
Geoffrey Simmons began pawning his items six years ago "just to fill the freezer".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2023
Nathan wondered how many people had been in their same position, pawning everything they had to make ends meet.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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