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Recent Examples of consignment
Republic Goods and Buffalo Exchange both offer consignment or trade-ins and Main Street Mercantile has antiques and unique finds in addition to clothing.
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Mackenzie Jervis, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
Additional funds are raised through holiday and spring luncheons, a pickleball tournament, and sales at the consignment shop on El Tordo, now headed up by TCF Executive Director Suzanne Newman and staffed by volunteers.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
Alouette’s attempts to reclaim her work as her own instead of her father’s result in her consignment to Salpêtrière.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Glassman declined the offer to purchase them, but chatted with Repasky about retail and consignment.
—Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2026
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Mackenzie Jervis, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
Additional funds are raised through holiday and spring luncheons, a pickleball tournament, and sales at the consignment shop on El Tordo, now headed up by TCF Executive Director Suzanne Newman and staffed by volunteers.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
Alouette’s attempts to reclaim her work as her own instead of her father’s result in her consignment to Salpêtrière.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Glassman declined the offer to purchase them, but chatted with Repasky about retail and consignment.
—Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for consignment
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From cargo ships crossing the ocean to the delivery van pulling up to your door, rising fuel and other energy prices are driving up the cost of transporting goods.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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An Iranian official says that 16 commercial and civilian cargo ships were set on fire after an American-Israeli strike on two of its ports on the Persian Gulf.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
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Their discussion was punctuated by calls for quiet as hundreds of attendees milled around the convention hall to collect their accreditation.—
Rob Crilly,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Mar. 2026
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Weeks after the list was published, five pro-Palestinian groups launched a campaign to revoke the accreditation of 17 Canadian Jewish sleepaway camps.—
Jesse Brown,
The Atlantic,
24 Mar. 2026
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Russian supertanker Astro Lupus waits to unload its cargo of the first direct shipment of Russian crude oil on July 3, 2002 in the Gulf of Mexico.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
13 Mar. 2026
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The animal, discovered among a shipment of automobiles, is now being cared for at the Bronx Zoo.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
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But the past two years have also seen a drop-off in the labor force participation rate of mothers with young children, in part because return-to-office mandates have reduced pandemic-era flexibility.—
Jacqueline Munis,
Fortune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Season 2 springboards on Fisk’s strongarm rule and his mandate to clean up the streets of rebels via his brutish Anti-Vigilante Task Force, which rounds up people – echoing recent INS maneuvers – and shoves them into deplorable conditions and cages.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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But the sector is reliant on just-in-time air freight, and routes have become longer and more expensive because of the Iran war’s disruption to Gulf air hubs, forcing some producers to discard as much as half of their flowers.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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The Swedish retailer has a relatively low exposure to the Middle East, with about 3% of its stores in the region and a low share of air freight in its supply chain.—
Elsa Ohlen,
CNBC,
26 Mar. 2026
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In a statement, lifestyle creator Yanina Oyarzo emphasized that the Creator ID component of the platform could protect influencers like herself from being associated with fake promotions.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Mar. 2026
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There’s a meaningful difference between asking for a promotion and asking for development opportunities.—
Johnny C. Taylor Jr,
USA Today,
24 Mar. 2026
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When my sister and I left the building, the morgue techs were still parked in the yellow loading zone between Target and Tower Cleaners—our dad’s dry-cleaning place—and just closing the tailgate of the hearse.—
Amanda Peet,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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If its loading facilities were knocked out, Iran's ability to export oil would collapse almost immediately.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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As each artist spent up to two years out of commission, a raft of solo releases kept someone in a rollout while giving everyone a crack at a unique musical statement or two.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2026
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Retailers who sell winning lottery tickets receive a sales bonus from the lottery commission.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Consignment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consignment. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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