wholesale
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So he made the unpopular call to double down with the surge—adding more troops in a wholesale change in strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
However, he cautioned that there was "plenty of time to go" and a fall in wholesale prices could ease the pressure.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Separate reports on consumer and wholesale inflation will come next week.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Europe, which delayed its summer stockpiling due to high wholesale costs sparked by the Iran war, had been gambling the conflict would end before winter and prices would in turn fall.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“I’ll order some from the wholesale house, son. We do a real good bizness in fine-tooth combs. Lots a-town folks got trouble with them critters.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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Production, exports and wholesales of passenger cars in China all hit fresh highs in November compared with the same month in prior years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
While the company makes most of its money from direct sales at the moment, Yang expects its wholesales business to grow.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
To some extent, the board split reflected different levels of dependence on the imported supplies that Metropolitan wholesales to the Southland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
But Jeff Kightlinger, general manager of the giant Metropolitan Water District, which wholesales water to the six counties of that megalopolis, said there is enough to last the year, even without more rain.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2014
The best intellects, the best business men in the societies, meet in the big centres as directors of federations and wholesales, and they get an all-Ireland view of their industry.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell
That’s not the narrative being wholesaled by the financial press and investment pundits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
“In a normal situation, there’s some surplus that gets generated when you’re farming,” he said, explaining that the surplus would be wholesaled to other retailers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
He has brokered real estate deals in Florida, arranged bank loans in Venezuela, marketed industrial pumps in Thailand, wholesaled shoes in Panama, promoted a building-materials company to Mexican interests and advised transnational financial services firms.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2015
After that, I started a company that wholesaled mobile phones.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2011
Marketing: In our large apple-growing districts the crop is generally wholesaled, either in the orchard or subject to delivery at the railroad, generally in barrels.
From The Apple by Various
On is attempting a more calibrated approach, neither neglecting its shelf space in retail nor wholesaling so many shoes that prices are undermined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Equipment wholesaling and transportation logistics are service industries that saw big jumps in the April data, a sign that higher oil prices are transitioning into a “second-order effect,” Helfstein says.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
"Services grew a little, with wholesaling, pubs and restaurants and IT companies all doing well, partially offset by falls in accountancy and business rental & leasing," she added.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
Still, redevelopment pressures, driven by manufacturing and wholesaling interests and ultimately high-end development on the outskirts of the area, never went away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
They called it railroading, high finance, banking, wholesaling, real estate, and such things, but the point was that they got it, while she got what was left,—twenty-two cents.
From Burning Daylight by Jack London
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