fetch
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In New Orleans, a federal contractor told MarketWatch that the condo he paid $90,000 for in 2005 would fetch at most $110,000 two decades on if he were to sell, per his estimates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Pristine, full-bodied matsutakes can fetch as much as 800 yuan a kilo, equivalent to about $54 a pound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 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
The set includes Andy Warhol’s portraits of David Hockney and Aretha Franklin, and Hockney’s “Hawthorne Blossom, Woldgate No. 4,” among other works collectively estimated to fetch more than $35 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
“I’ll go...I’ll fetch some sheets from one of the guest rooms.”
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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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
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
“No, but I can tell you how much money squid fetches per pound at the dock.”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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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
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
She emptied and sluiced the bedpans, swept and polished floors, made cocoa and Bovril, fetched and carried—and was delivered from introspection.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
The sale lasted for more than five hours and included buyers from 34 countries, fetching £3,649,280 - more than three times its estimated value.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Further complicating the Fed decision, oil prices have surged this month, with crude lately fetching over $99 a barrel in Friday New York trading, versus $85.76 at the end of August.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
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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