consignment

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Recent Examples of consignment Parra also received fentanyl on consignment from Salazar for further distribution, authorities allege. Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025 The second to last member of Antique Row, a furniture consignment shop, closed in 2015 when the landlord doubled the $1,500 rent, SD News reported. Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025 That gallery traded in consignments and works from Wynn’s own collection at the high end of the market, and Aktion Art would deal in emerging artists. Ben Widdicombe, Vulture, 12 May 2025 All the bottles are digitized for trading and sold on consignment by Unicorn for customers across the country. Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for consignment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consignment
Noun
  • Satellite images from Maxar Technology also captured a line of cargo trucks parked outside Fordow in the days before strikes, stirring speculation of whether Iran had moved some of its nuclear equipment.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 27 June 2025
  • July 3 — Roscosmos’ Soyuz to launch with supply cargo to the International Space Station out of Kazakhstan.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Less than a week after pausing weapons shipments to Ukraine, US President Donald Trump said his administration would reverse course.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 8 July 2025
  • Shortly after that, Israeli airstrikes on Iranian weapons shipments to Hezbollah across neighboring Syria — at the time, a key ally of Iran — weakened the dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown last December by rebels.
    James Hider, NPR, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • By law, interstate freight truck drivers cannot exceed 11 hours on the road.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2025
  • These imports will only be allowed entry into India using ocean freight via the Nhava Sheva Port (also known as Jawaharlal Nehru Port) in Mumbai.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Under its two congressional mandates, the central bank reduces rates to lower borrowing costs for Americans and bolster a sluggish economy.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 4 July 2025
  • Regulatory Push: Data-sovereignty rules in the EU, U.S. federal AI-risk guidelines and industry-specific mandates (HIPAA, FINRA) all quietly favor keeping sensitive model development closer to home turf.
    Baris Kavakli, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Security analysts assume that such explosions are related to the vessel's recent loading at Russian oil export facilities; however, Lloyd's List said that there is no hard evidence to support these theories, making vessel risk assessments difficult for shipowners and operators.
    Brendan Cole John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
  • Driving, being in control of all these pallets of Guinness and stacking them, loading [semis] that were going out to various pubs in Northern Ireland.
    EW.com, EW.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • These are used to target you with aggressive refinancing offers, alarm system ads, or moving service promotions.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
  • These are murky waters, especially when performance, promotion, and compensation are on the line.
    David Ferrucci, Fortune, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Large scale battery storage deployments nearly doubled last year to 30 gigawatts nationwide due to demand from solar projects to balance intermittent loads.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • By integrating route planning, safety compliance, document processing, and real-time load visibility, platforms like this offer smaller carriers the kind of operational backbone typically reserved for national fleets.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Ultimately, wildlife commissions have a responsibility to all state citizens—not simply the most vocal. FWC employs more than 2,000 full-time fish and wildlife experts, with many possessing advanced degrees.
    Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The House bill would remove Martínez López, along with fellow ANC member Jingwen Sun, from the voter rolls and from their posts on the commission.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 1 July 2025

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