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fetch

[fech] / fɛtʃ /


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The most coveted shoe models, which the company manufactures in limited runs, can fetch three or four times more than their retail value on the resale market.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

The startup based in New York was most recently valued at $1.3 billion, but could fetch around $10 billion in a sale.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Also new to the story is Independence, Kan., itself, which in the book is an offstage place to which Pa will sometimes go to fetch necessities, disappearing from the story until he returns.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

More than 100 silver items, dating from the early 1700s to the early 1900s, had been expected to fetch up to £23,000 when they were offered for sale at Elmwood's auctioneers in London.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

“Go down to the library and fetch me a book. The title is A Children’s Garden of Verses. Surely you can manage that?”

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

That multiple is somewhere between Gap, which fetches a market cap that is about half of its trailing 12-month revenue, and Aritzia ATZ -1.33%decrease; down pointing triangle , which trades at four times.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Thrifted Wilt Chamberlain jacket fetches $89,600 at auction.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

With inflation soaring, the dollar now fetches about 480 pesos, making his monthly income worth less than $10.

From Salon Feb. 15, 2026

Alibaba now fetches about 28-times its earnings for the current fiscal year, up from 18-times as of March 2025.

From Barron's Jan. 19, 2026

“No, but I can tell you how much money squid fetches per pound at the dock.”

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Kobe Bryant’s sneakers from the game in which he tore his Achilles tendon — and hit two free throws before he left the court — fetched $660,000.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

And, speaking of holy grails: Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” fetched $32.5 million.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Scene in Braemar, by Queen Victoria's favourite artist Sir Edwin Landseer, fetched five times the previous record for one of his works.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

The Nifty Fifty fetched about 47 times earnings at their peak, which is higher than a simple average of today’s champs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

My mother got up, fetched a plate from the rack, and filled it with stew from the iron pot on the fire.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Cogen sold a combined 986,540 indirectly owned shares across five trusts and holding companies that he manages, fetching a total of $106 million.

From Barron's May 29, 2026

Photos seen by the BBC show a crowd of people, many of them elderly, apparently fetching fresh supplies in a city square.

From BBC May 6, 2026

Palantir, with an even more enthusiastic fan base, was among the 20 most valuable S&P 500 companies at its November peak, fetching a ludicrous 150 times sales.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 2026

Through Stacy’s fetching sadness, we come to know that maybe a certain motivational speaker was right.

From Salon Mar. 23, 2026

Thelma’s sister, Thula, at twenty-two, was a lovely, slender, elfin-faced girl with a whimsical pile of black curls and a fetching smile.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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