pawnshop
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Jack Ma forgot that, briefly, in October 2020, when at a financial regulators’ summit he said the Chinese banking system operated like a pawnshop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The second of Grossman’s fairy-tale-inspired romances set among Jewish families in Regency London finds the saucy scion of a disgraced family falling for a raven-haired criminal pawnshop owner.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
“Without having a rigorous, effective enforcement, nothing’s going to happen,” said Tony DeMarco, a pawnshop owner and president of the Whittier Boulevard Merchants Assn., which opposed the ordinance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
In 1998, he decided to try DJing professionally and went to the pawnshop to buy better equipment.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2022
The door to the pawnshop opens, and an enormous white guy in a white tracksuit comes out and over to us.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
Typical Diamond District buyers or pawnshops don’t have coin experts on hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
“I can’t believe someone would take it and I hope local pawnshops don’t buy them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
He sold them to booksellers, pawnshops and collectors.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
That’s more than $55 million in fees collected predominantly from low-income Americans each day — not even counting the annual revenue collected by pawnshops and title loan services and rent-to-own schemes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
The town’s main intersection, called Five Points, is dotted with check-cashing agencies and pawnshops.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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