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[sel] / sɛl /


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In September, Becerra promoted Proposition 1, a proposal on the November ballot that would allow the state to sell nearly $11.3 billion in bonds to fund affordable housing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Ford Europe President Jim Baumbick is leading a comeback plan to sell new racing-inspired, hybrid and electric vehicles by the end of the decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Richard Tuke has lived on the island for 20 years but now wants to sell up and live in Spain.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Polymarket allows users to buy and sell shares tied to the probability of real-world events, from who will win the Oscars to the outcome of an election or potential ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

“You can be positive and wrong on the sell side,” says Vinny.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Ludovic de Fombelle, a French dealer, said the company needs that kind of differentiation in what it sells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Microsoft sells applications and cloud services, giving it opportunities to design infrastructure around work its customers already perform.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Turkish protesters have linked the headscarf rules to Azerbaijan's close ties with Israel, which sells weapons to Baku and buys Azerbaijani oil.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Much of those emissions come from burning the hydrocarbons the company produces and sells.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The woman at the box office sells you a ticket, rips it in half, and hands you the stub.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

She sold the place in October 2012 for $1.5 million.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Over the summer, they sold the house for $1.55 million and are now using the proceeds to buy a new house in Maine for around $725,000, paying in cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Not long after buying that home, Clarkson sold her modern farmhouse in Encino, Calif., for $8.24 million in September 2021.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

The number of houses sold in a region can impact how much prices rise or fall compared to other places.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

They owned subprime mortgage–backed CDOs less for their own sake than for the fees that their deals would generate once they had sold them.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

And the selling rolled over into Asia, where Tokyo was pulled down by tech investment titan SoftBank as well as Advantest and Tokyo Electron.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Its strategy for selling powerful supercomputers makes it relatively unique among the businesses benefiting most from the world’s unprecedented AI infrastructure build-out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Some fraudsters have made websites for fake retailers that claim to be family-owned firms selling quality UK-made products.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

This was months after the best selling book, “A Season on the Brink,” was published.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

The smell of frying prawns came from the food cart selling freshly made fritters on the beach.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook


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