secondhand
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With secondhand shopping on the rise, one L.A. store has carved out a niche by helping influencers sell their surplus clothes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
He was a constant worrier who never let the gas gauge on our secondhand Pontiac fall below three quarters full.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
And they buy their baby stuff secondhand, as these goods depreciate faster than clothing, cars and electronics, they note.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 14, 2026
Online, the secondhand market is flourishing too, led by Xianyu, the Alibaba-owned answer to eBay with more than 600 million users, and Zhuanzhuan, a Tencent-backed resale platform known mainly for electronics.
From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God’s foot soldiers, while our mother’s is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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