fetch
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That means he thinks shares could come to fetch a higher valuation.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Considered purely as a financial instrument, the bond, paying €13.61 a year, would probably fetch little more than $600.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
A rare marble sculpture could fetch up to £18,000 at auction after it spent more than seven decades sitting outside, mistaken for a garden ornament.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The dress, designed by Christina Stambolian, is estimated to fetch between $150,000 and $300,000, with some proceeds going to charity.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
I was like a dog that would go fetch Ms. W.’s stick, even if it was in a snake’s hole under a thorn bush that had just been sprayed by a skunk.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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The average one-carat natural diamond fetches $3,415, about 47% less than it did a decade ago, according to Zimnisky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Thrifted Wilt Chamberlain jacket fetches $89,600 at auction.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Conagra fetches about 9.8 times forward earnings, a nearly 60% discount to the S&P 500.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
L’Oréal stock fetches about 28 times expected earnings for 2026, a premium to Nestlé.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
He murmurs to himself; he fetches thick booklets or electrical components from various rooms on the lower stories.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Four years ago, one of the brand’s mint-condition watches fetched 51% of its original value at resale, 10 percentage points higher than today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Last year, one sold for $475,000, while a key at nearby Hancock Beach fetched $650,000, property records show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Through a 2023 funding round, Hugging Face fetched a private-market valuation of $4.5 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Last year a 210kg bluefin tuna caught in South West waters fetched more than £2,000 at auction.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
She must have known what that meant, must have sensed the farewell in it, because she fetched my father.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Processing tomatoes — those used in products such as canned diced tomatoes and ketchup — are also fetching lower prices than they did a few years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Bullish investors will point to the high prices that AI processing power is fetching in the market: Due to infrastructure bottlenecks, buyers are paying, on average, over $20 billion per gigawatt annually.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
At almost $90 a pound, it is as much as five times more than sellers were fetching at the lowest parts of the downturn that followed the Fukushima reactor meltdowns in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Edinburgh's own Duke of Wellington statue, outside Register House in the city centre, was spotted sporting fetching, orange headwear earlier this week.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
“I answer to the King’s army. I’d be right pleased if you kept fetching the water. Makes my life easier.”
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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