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as in object
one that has a real and independent existence
the docudrama really wasn't a commodity until the television networks started creating their own feature-length movies
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Recent Examples of commodity
For this, we’re granted precious flashback rations, which up until this point, have been a rare commodity this season.
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Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
22 June 2026
And increasingly, these will come from rockets, putting the most stress on roads and requiring the most commodities for launch.
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Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
22 June 2026
The prices of other key commodities are also returning to prewar levels Monday.
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Rob Wile,
NBC news,
22 June 2026
Well, efficiency is now a commodity.
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Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
Footwear News,
22 June 2026
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Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
22 June 2026
And increasingly, these will come from rockets, putting the most stress on roads and requiring the most commodities for launch.
—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
22 June 2026
The prices of other key commodities are also returning to prewar levels Monday.
—
Rob Wile,
NBC news,
22 June 2026
Well, efficiency is now a commodity.
—
Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
Footwear News,
22 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commodity
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Many of the injuries displayed rectangular, band-like and patterned characteristics consistent with impact from a belt-like object, Detective Balders wrote.
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In her two-story home, lamps and other objects began swaying violently.
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Under the island’s current economic model, the government largely determines what is produced, who produces it, the prices at which goods are sold and how the country’s resources are allocated.
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And basic goods are in short supply.
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One of the entities that helped turn an idea into those accounts was a partnership called the Emergency Savings Initiative (ESI), between asset manager BlackRock and Commonwealth, a national nonprofit focused on financial security.
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Generally, dark energy and dark matter are regarded as separate entities, their elusiveness their primary link.
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The deal is Australia’s largest ever defense export.
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China imposed export restrictions on 10 US companies, including two rare-earths firms backed by Washington, marking the latest escalation in recent Sino-American trade tensions.
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Haney painted the prosecution’s case as heavy on circumstance but light on substance.
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Public relations first, substance second and winning will magically come if the baseball gods grant it.
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Demand for powerful chips has become essentially infinite thanks to the AI boom—yet the global supply of chips remains capped by how many EUV lithography machines one company can crank out, and by how much fab capacity one other company has available.
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According to Quantum Strategy's David Roche, Middle East oil supply is currently close to prewar levels once crude held in storage and aboard tankers is included.
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In reality, Lewis says, men have a deep, wide range of feeling that encompasses both traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine aspects.
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Artists and couturiers are fond of the whimsy of trompe l’oeil, the trick of the eye, the illusion of reality.
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Piepenbrink and others in the historical society displayed original photos, signs, pamphlets, bobbleheads and other merchandise that demonstrated life surrounding the racetrack.
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Goodness is a boutique in George Town owned by Daniella McGowan that lifts Caymanian merchandise out of the realm of the cheesy tourist T-shirt and into something that has soul and craft.
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“Commodity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commodity. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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