as in schemes
a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end
his latest fetch to win back his girlfriend smacks of desperation
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as in pictures
something or someone that strongly resembles another
with its standard assortment of chain stores and central food court, the new mall is pretty much the fetch of 1,000 other malls
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as in costs
to have a price of
those old toys that we tossed away are now fetching big bucks as antiques
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Recent Examples of fetches
Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
No one wants to drill under the ocean when oil fetches $60 a barrel.
—John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
CookingPal’s gadget suggests meals, fetches recipes, chops, stirs, and steams ingredients, and then cleans up after itself.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2020
Verb
Rafferty doesn’t offer much in the way of sympathy, describing their time together as both brief and now over before Plunket fetches his wife to bring her home himself.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
No one wants to drill under the ocean when oil fetches $60 a barrel.
—John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
CookingPal’s gadget suggests meals, fetches recipes, chops, stirs, and steams ingredients, and then cleans up after itself.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2020
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Worse, may car owners act like their car only costs the incremental cost of operating it, which can appear be under 5 cents/mile in an EV.—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Church attack brings for army of helpers A Grand Blanc Township resident opened his home to people fleeing the church attack.—
John Wisely,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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While manufacturing provides more than 470,000 jobs and brings more than $66 billion into Wisconsin's economy, the sector continues to decline in the state despite growth nationally.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Fetches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fetches. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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