sell
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“They are trying to sell something that is not sellable,” Bannon said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
After her death, Peston kept the property for "a while" before deciding to sell because he said being there reinforced the "terrible sadness and grief" he felt.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Rags-to-riches stories tend to be as fabulistic as tales designed to sell the upper class as fair and solicitous to the needs of working people, or amenable to Cinderella fantasies.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
If you feel like your favorite morning news or talk show is frequently trying to sell you something, you’re right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
“More important? I think it’ll sell for a hundred bucks easy,” I say, already mentally adding the money into my park fund.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
Get Baked sells online across the UK, and recently opened a shop in Covent Garden, London.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Google has its massive search business; Meta has its social-media empire; Microsoft and Amazon dominate the hosting of enterprise software; and Apple sells the most popular hardware for consumers to run AI on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Signature-matching technology is now good enough to “make your head explode,” said David Gerber, the senior vice president at ParaScript, a company that sells such technology to banks and numerous entities conducting elections.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
The so-called Whiskey Raccoon sells for $750, and the squirrels go for $450 each.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Your grandfather is no longer himself, and the store sells less and less.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
“A Woman of Substance,” based on Barbara Taylor Bradford’s 1979 bestseller, is being sold to an American audience as a “Downton Abbey” replacement.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
To solve this problem, Bauer-Kahan put an entertainment industry exception in the bill, exempting “printers manufactured for and sold exclusively to entertainment industry stagecraft and propmaking studios” from the software requirement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
A limited run of a prototype dubbed the "Doubao Phone" sold out fast in December.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
She says she receives no monetary compensation for these posts, save for the tickets and lounge access which, at this particular game, sold for nearly $4,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
One night at dinner a couple of weeks later Daddy told me, “We’ve sold the lots, Ida B. To one family. And they’re going to keep some of the trees.”
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
The broadcast networks experimented with direct selling to viewers over the years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
He even managed to turn a potential liability—at 63 he is older by decades than the executives running emerging rivals—into a selling point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Online shopping, says Charlotte, “is something I avoid, especially as I get older — I just don’t have the patience to decode the sizing differences of four different brands selling basically the same shirt.”
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
They were selling the three-bedroom terrace they'd renovated and buying her parents' four-bedroom detached house in the countryside.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Even if Nine had been selling the mushrooms with the promise that they’d make toads sprout wings, it wouldn’t matter; for soon, Clare would be gone, Nine’s little mushroom business along with him.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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