pawn
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Across town at an Ezpawn store near the airport, local Nevadans need a $200 pawn loan to pay their bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Mercader seduced Ageloff, who would become an unwitting pawn in the murder of one of her heroes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Steve Buscemi and Giancarlo Esposito have supporting turns as, respectively, a pawn shop owner and a cop, and joined Turturro onstage where the super-group of Sundance veterans spoke of their personal affection for Robert Redford.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
They may turn to pawn transactions and other informal borrowing arrangements.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
For decades the two of them owned a pawn shop, where Charity would handle the customers—she was always the cool-tempered one.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
For the next several hours, Nick and Honey serve as unwitting pawns in the older couple’s clever, but vicious, mind games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
"Regardless of what they were convicted of and what they did, they're still being used as pawns in a dystopian game exchanging bodies for money," David told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
She accused her ex-partner of using the children as "pawns in his game".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2024
The captured chess pieces, knights and pawns and bishops, line up on the outskirts of the board.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
She could have pawned or sold things but certain things she kept for herself.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
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
Migrants pawned their jewelry to pay for passage or brought their treasure to new lands.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 11, 2024
Chobe has sold or pawned off just about everything in his tattered home and is reduced to his underwear.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
Maybe Joe had forgotten about it, or maybe he’d stolen it or pawned it—they seemed pretty poor over there.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
Take this comment he makes in “Baby J” after a bit he tells about pawning a watch.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
The way pawning works is this: You take stuff to a pawnshop.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
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