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auction

noun as in competitive sale; sale by bid

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Curtains that once graced the windows of a royal retreat have been turned into Christmas stockings to be auctioned for charity.

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The auction house said in its promotional material that very little was known of the painting -- only that a peer of Rubens had made an engraving of it.

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About 20 years ago, one album of photographs from the movement appeared at a London auction.

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In many states the lender can still obtain a “deficiency judgment” against both borrower and cosigner after they sell the car at auction.

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Meanwhile, Lynch, the Miami-based investor, had been asking the U.S. government to allow him to bid on the sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline 2 if it came up for auction in a Swiss bankruptcy proceeding.

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