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The paper describes the "diplomatic row" as a "major test" for Andy Burnham and follows comments the PM made on how he was "really concerned" if the club's owners decided to sell up.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
At L&G Asset Management in London, fund managers at first saw what they thought was a great opportunity to buy French government bonds and sell bunds in recent days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Private-equity funds are sitting on trillions of dollars in companies they haven’t been able to sell for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
It also ends a credit trading program that allowed EV companies such as Tesla, Rivian and Lucid to sell credits to other manufacturers to help them comply with the standards, which brought them considerable revenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Long Beach Savings had been the first to embrace the originate and sell model and now was moving money out the door to new home buyers as fast as it could, few questions asked.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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
Kroger’s category managers have bargained separately over individual product categories like chips and soda, or beef and chicken, even when the same company sells both.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
San Diego-based Unigrid sells a nine kilowatt hour battery for people's homes.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
While Leica still makes highly refined and deliberately pared-down film cameras, four out of five models it sells are now digital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
“And not to put any pressure on you or anything, but you probably want to master this thing fast before Dr. Jerkface sells your cells to the military for cloning.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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He fostered them into a small herd, which he sold to ranchers Michel Pablo and Charles Allard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Tickets sold out within the day on Friday, but the public may participate in the auction online at juliensauctions.com.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
An acoustic guitar played by Noel Gallagher at Oasis's 1996 MTV Unplugged gig, and signed by him, has sold at auction for £226,800 setting a "world record".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
So with this year’s tremendous increase in long-term interest rates as the bond market has sold off, you might be wondering why the stock market hasn’t declined.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
When he became ill, he sold many acres of good farmland to buy more of his favorite books.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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That’s another misunderstanding: We were hawking game, as we like to make a little cash on the side selling rare meats.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
Their colleagues on the rates-strategy team said no—too many investors were still long France, and could create a self-fueling selling cycle if they ran to the exit at once.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Last year, when Chizzola decided to start selling matcha from a sort of grown-up street-corner lemonade stand, he chose a patch of sidewalk at Franklin Avenue and Talmadge Street, two blocks from the bridge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Hired as an assistant project manager, the candidate’s strong communication and organizational skills were his selling point, she said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
“We didn’t know you were selling part of your firm,” they said—and Burry explained that he didn’t realize it either until a few days earlier, when someone offered a million dollars, after tax, for it.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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