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Recent Examples of auctioned
At The Quail, the company showed the R1S Quad Pebble Beach, which was auctioned off earlier in the week at the Broad Arrow Monterey Jet Center Auction for $175,000, $45,000 more than its auction estimate.
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Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
The Missions’ jerseys will be auctioned immediately after Saturday’s game, while the jerseys worn by the Padres and Red Sox will be placed in an online auction next week.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
The Missions’ jerseys will be auctioned immediately after Saturday’s game, while the jerseys worn by the Padres and Red Sox will be placed in an online auction next week.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for auctioned
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The emails were originally unearthed during a sweeping internal affairs investigation, which revealed in 2015 that Miami Beach officers had exchanged hundreds of racist, sexist and pornographic messages via their city email accounts.—
Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2026
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Email trail The Dallas Morning News reviewed nearly 5,000 pages of emails exchanged over the past 12 months among city officials, consultants and others involved in discussions about the future of City Hall.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
13 Mar. 2026
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Weeks later, his father was killed in a fire that destroyed the home Hamlin purchased to thank his parents for getting him into NASCAR.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Mar. 2026
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Soon after, a band director in Brazil discovered the piece and purchased it for performance — an extraordinary achievement for a high school composer.—
Heide Janssen,
Oc Register,
15 Mar. 2026
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For the occasion, Zendaya swapped her recent penchant for bridal whites and wore head-to-toe gold.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
15 Mar. 2026
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Mackin swapped out her mother’s deep red rug for a more neutral option from English Village Lane and framed the windows with one of her sister’s favorite textiles, Heather Chadduck’s Grande Frond.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
15 Mar. 2026
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In May 2025, a 1,871-square-foot single-family residence in the 3800 block of Corina Way sold for $3,300,000, a price per square foot of $1,764.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
12 Mar. 2026
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It was originally sold to someone overseas who ultimately couldn’t complete the purchase, so there were some details that hadn’t been finished.—
Carisa Crawford Chappell,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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No matter how they're merchandised, take notice of these home staples.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
10 Jan. 2026
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In-store, the line will be merchandised across the young adult floor pad for its fashion and sportswear, with intimates and sleep living on the intimates and sleepwear floor pad.—
Emily Mercer,
Footwear News,
7 Jan. 2026
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ClubNFT launched as a safety net to protect the digital artifacts transacted via NFTs, backing up more than a million digital artworks and assets owned by the world’s leading collectors.—
Ana María Caballero,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Further, however, signs concerning the sales and use permit also were posted at the location, saying no sales can be transacted there.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
7 Aug. 2025
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The county’s risk-assessment attorneys had negotiated a settlement for about $6 million that would have resolved all of the cases, but the Board of Supervisors rejected it in August 2021 and hired Sheppard-Mullin to defend the county.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
11 Mar. 2026
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The deal was negotiated between Frank Jaffe from Altered Innocence and Monica Ciarli from Minerva Pictures.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
11 Mar. 2026
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That situation doesn’t exist because the NFL and NFLPA have collectively bargained workplace rules, including those that prohibit tampering, limit free agency and contemplate multiyear player contracts and all those rules are exempt from antitrust scrutiny.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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Any change to the current penalty system — 80 games for first-time offenders, a full season for second-time offenders and a lifetime ban for the third — would have to be collectively bargained for and agreed upon by the commissioner’s office and the players’ association.—
Brittany Ghiroli,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Auctioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auctioned. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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