variants or saleable
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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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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for salable
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  • The only commercial enrichment facility operating in the U.S. is owned by Urenco, the European consortium.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 6 June 2025
  • The budget request proposed transitioning to cheaper commercial systems – with the chief candidates expected to provide them being SpaceX and Blue Origin.
    Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
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  • Skill Stack & Artificial Intelligence A skill stack refers to a personalized combination of marketable skills, credentials, and experiences that can evolve in response to emerging trends and market demands.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • Newer buildings to the west are more stable and marketable, while unimproved buildings to the east are struggling and emptying.
    Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 29 May 2025
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  • Mark Lazarus, who will run Comcast’s new cable spinoff, will be more exposed to political pressure without a corporate parent.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 10 June 2025
  • There’s also more heightened genre elements, including explosions, gun fights and a mysterious corporate private plane hovering over the desert.
    Lauren Coates, Variety, 10 June 2025
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  • Boeing, with its essential role in American aerospace dominance and global commercial aviation, represents the perfect storm of characteristics that make TACO trades profitable.
    Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • Musk's SpaceX has spent years positioning itself at the center of American civil and military spaceflight – a profitable relationship that has made the company's CEO incredibly wealthy.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 June 2025

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“Salable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salable. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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