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Ezcorp boosted its presence in the higher-end market in 2022 by acquiring luxe pawn operator Max Pawn Luxury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

"Magyar will want, as he did during the campaign, not to be caricatured as being a pawn of Brussels; do not expect him to say yes to everything," said an EU diplomat.

From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026

Mercader seduced Ageloff, who would become an unwitting pawn in the murder of one of her heroes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Steve Buscemi and Giancarlo Esposito have supporting turns as, respectively, a pawn shop owner and a cop, and joined Turturro onstage where the super-group of Sundance veterans spoke of their personal affection for Robert Redford.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

Samir wiggled his fingers over a pawn, jiggled his mustache, picked it up, and plopped it down a couple squares ahead, exposed entirely.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

“Those poor girls were pawns in the local political wrangle as much as I was. They were being drained and wrung out and so was I,” Flynn wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Michael Winstanley told BBC Radio Manchester many in the Greater Manchester constituency were "resentful" about the by-election and felt like "political pawns".

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Through it all, many Greenlanders have felt like pawns in a global game that has upended their politics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Come Nov. 1, they still will be pawns, but hungrier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025

Although Bobby’s life now revolved around the Manhattan, there were other pawns to capture.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

She has noted that he is difficult to manage, so I figured she just pawned him off on me now that the company has scaled up.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

"I pawned my mum's rings, he just took everything I had and I was diagnosed with an aneurysm and Bell's palsy."

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

Kilroe, being the veteran executive he was, did the obvious: He pawned the request onto someone else.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

It was named for Barney Pressman, who in 1923 pawned his wife’s ring, at her encouragement, for $500 to buy the lease of a small store on Seventh Avenue and 17th Street in Manhattan.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

A short time later he’d found a ticket from the shop in Mont-de-Piete in her room which proved that she’d pawned two bracelets.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

She’s hoping to avoid pawning something or paying a bill late.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026

I offended an acolyte who caught me pawning off the dessert basket she brought me to a neighbor, and insulted a coworker who’d gifted me holiday champagne by saying, “Don’t you know I don’t drink?”

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023

His path to the death chamber began in 1999 when, as an 18-year-old, he was jailed on a misdemeanor charge of pawning a rented stereo system.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2023

The 36-year-old has just redeemed her son's Xbox after pawning it a few weeks earlier to be able to pay for some food shopping.

From BBC ● May 13, 2022

I could no longer pay the cook and the harper, and Lynesse grew wild when I spoke of pawning her jewels.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin