auction
Example Sentences
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Warner Bros., a signature Hollywood studio for more than a century, is on the auction block.
From Los Angeles Times
The Western College of Auctioneering has matriculated over 5,000 students, who auction everything from farm equipment to fine art.
"Next year, I think, literally at the beginning of the year, the stake will be auctioned off, an open auction," Siluanov said in an interview with Russian state television.
From Barron's
The first thing you notice as people file into a Best Western hotel conference room for the first morning of auction school is nobody has coffee.
She held an auction in 1987, selling most of her personal belongings—from jewelry to dresses and old posters—to raise money for her work.
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