auction
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Beyond hedging, Kalshi said that its new markets also provide retail speculators and casual art aficionados a way to get in on the auction action.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
Soon, those eye-popping auction prices will become the subject of prediction markets on Kalshi.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
In 2004, Google famously tried a Dutch auction as a way to push back against what it viewed as the clubby world of bankers allocating stock to the largest institutions and wealthiest clients.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
Andrew Crowley, 46, of Longwell Green, Gloucestershire, asked the auction house to value three Cycladic figures and an Anatolian stargazer statuette he had inherited from his grandfather.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
The other man took the piece of paper and pinned it on the corkboard, where the notices of dances, auction sales, whist drives, and so on were displayed.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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