commodity
Example Sentences
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Brands and bottle manufacturers warn that a prolonged war will risk making a crucial commodity prohibitively expensive for many Indians.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
“As long as flows don’t recover substantially, the path of least resistance remains to the upside for oil prices,” said Giovanni Staunovo, commodity analyst at UBS.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
This is part of Cal-Maine’s strategy to steadily move away from its reliance on volatile commodity egg pricing and build a more predictable and less cyclical business.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
Some goods could be reclassified as commodity products if they are made almost entirely of the metals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
And something else, something I hadn’t noticed right away: Hardly any of them sat with an adult male—the wars had made fathers a rare commodity in Afghanistan.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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