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as in commercial
fit or likely to be sold especially on a large scale
an item that would be too expensive to produce, and attractive to too few people, to ever be considered a salable commodity
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as in marketable
fit to be offered for sale
the car has to be put in better condition before it will be at all salable
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Recent Examples of salable
The series renders the potentially odd and inward aspects of fantasy salable—paranormals are just like contemporary humans, with familiar psychologies, politics, and value systems.
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Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Add the contemporaneous arrival of a lively market for contemporary art, which had barely existed earlier in 20th century America, and all those rival brand names could seem like desperate promotional efforts to crack the market with comfortably retrograde, highly salable pictures.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
And the company’s privacy policies make clear that in the event of a merger or an acquisition, customer information is a salable asset.
—Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024
Finally, despite Trump’s harsh critiques of the Obama administration’s campaign against ISIS, this approach is probably the most politically salable.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2017
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Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Add the contemporaneous arrival of a lively market for contemporary art, which had barely existed earlier in 20th century America, and all those rival brand names could seem like desperate promotional efforts to crack the market with comfortably retrograde, highly salable pictures.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
And the company’s privacy policies make clear that in the event of a merger or an acquisition, customer information is a salable asset.
—Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024
Finally, despite Trump’s harsh critiques of the Obama administration’s campaign against ISIS, this approach is probably the most politically salable.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for salable
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Carriers transporting de minimis items, such as commercial mail agencies UPS and FedEx, must report shipment details to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the White House said April 2.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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That commercial income of £308million for 2023-24 will inevitably be higher again for this season.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Also, regulatory body publications from organizations like FINRA and HHS reinforce the idea that compliance with regulations is a marketable security feature.—
Andres Zunino,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Waters, who earned more than $3 million playing pickleball in 2024, according to Forbes, has emerged as one of the sport's biggest and most marketable stars.—
Jessica Golden,
CNBC,
22 Apr. 2025
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All in all, the neighborhood market growth was declining to stagnant while the downtown areas were slowly growing, driven predominantly by buyers moving from the suburbs, or out-of-state corporate transplants.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Naperville students receive corporate Merit Scholarships Two Naperville residents have been awarded scholarships as part of the 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2025
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About 90% of Apple’s production of the iPhone, its most profitable product, has remained in China, despite efforts to increase manufacturing elsewhere, according to financial services firm Wedbush Securities.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
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This year, the studio counted the top three most profitable titles with Inside Out 2, No. 2 with Moana 2 and No. 3 with Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine — the prescription for superhero fatigue.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
1 May 2025
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“Salable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salable. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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