sold

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Since 1990, he has sold home goods and furniture to foreign buyers, first working for factories, then starting his own business.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Tickets for this year's nine final events in Vienna sold out in record time.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

And a 1997 report from the outlet quoted a VideoScan stat indicating 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s colorized version of Shirley Temple’s “Heidi” sold 1.2 million copies versus 46,000 of its black-and-white version.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

General Motors has agreed to pay $12.5 million dollars to settle claims that the automaker illegally sold location and driving data of hundreds of thousands of Californians, state officials said Friday.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

In 1998, AIG FP entered the new market for corporate credit default swaps: It sold insurance to banks against the risk of defaults by huge numbers of investment-grade public corporations.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis