sell
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If it fails to meet its annual production quota, it will be forced to sell its 49% stake in Miramax, the film company founded by disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
To fund the purchase, he wants the parents to sell their current home for $620,000 and cash out their $600,000 brokerage account, giving him roughly $1.1 million for the down payment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
So Oura has to keep spending heavily on marketing—about a fifth of revenue—to sell new rings every year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Milan-based lender announced in May it planned to sell part of its Russian subsidiary to a "well-established private investor in the United Arab Emirates", while keeping part of its payments business in the country.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
And she went out with Mawuli to sell Ma’s homemade soap.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Baker Diane Bustos said her company now sells seven types of ube cookies.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
It sells its streaming players at thin margins and makes money from advertising and a cut of subscriptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Marriott chain sells candles and diffusers with “the signature scent of your favorite hotels,” including subsidiary brands Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, Westin, Sheraton and Courtyard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
That’s all alongside the medications that Lilly already sells: Zepbound and Mounjaro, plus Foundayo, a GLP-1 pill.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
“You think a hardware store sells mopeds on the level?”
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
Dealers are required to maintain records showing sales of vehicles so that authorities can ensure vehicles sold to buyers in another state are actually delivered there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
He estimates the mortgage will be $10,000 a month once both homes are sold, or $14,000 if they are not sold in time.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
If a model ends up hacking a website, once AI providers have sold their tools, Pandit said "we don't know" who is ultimately responsible.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
On aggregate, the money foreign investors have put into Indian markets in the past decade - after subtracting what they sold or withdrew - is nearing zero.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
They must have sold whatever they could, I thought, to buy a bit of food.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
By 2009, she’d completed enough plush produce to start selling at local pop-up markets under the business name Janie XY.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Michael Burry, the contrarian ex-hedge-fund manager chronicled in The Big Short, is selling his top holding at an 8.5-year low.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
The arrests, carried out in collaboration with the police, followed a tip-off that led to a swoop on the suspects, all women, accused of selling the bouquets in different parts of the capital, Accra.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Twelve men have been arrested in Vietnam after allegedly confessing to stealing and selling around 2,700 cats, Ho Chi Minh City police have said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“I’m just selling lemonade. To save my cat, Sir Fig Newton.”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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