sell off
Example Sentences
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Obama made clear that these were temporary emergency measures to save companies that faced extinction, and that the government would sell off its stock holdings as soon as that was practicable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
But that picture looks very different now, after two weeks of relentless fallout to his now-abandoned plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup and other competitions to private investors.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
In other words, they increasingly go in opposite directions: when chips sell off, healthcare has tended to catch a bid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Fifa president Gianni Infantino will meet with senior leaders of football's world governing body on Wednesday as criticism of his now scrapped plan to sell off Fifa's commercial and event operations intensifies.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The only way to raise money was to sell off the two things of value they owned—land or enslaved workers, their most valuable “property.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
