SOLD Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

sold

verb

Definition of sold

past tense of sell

as in marketed

to offer for sale to the public used to sell groceries in a small neighborhood market

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Recent Examples of sold That decision permanently strips the owner of future growth, dividends, voting rights and control over when the stock is sold. — Mark Lewyn, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2026 Deliveries won’t begin until 2029, but more than two-thirds of the limited 71-unit production run have been sold before the car is even shown to the public. — New Atlas, 5 Aug. 2026 Per its website, Salad and Go had over 70 drive-thru locations throughout Arizona and Nevada and sold items like salads and wraps. — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026 Goode charts the exploitation and mistreatment of reptiles that are illegally sold and sometimes endangered through intricate, decades-old smuggling operations that have often, but not always, escaped detection at airports. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026 Those creations are expected to be sold by Providence Park residents at Nilu's Nook, a gift shop and convenience store for the village. — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2026 Ford sold under just shy of 170,000 vehicles last month — 169,951. — Breana Noble, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026 Terminal 26, a new restaurant in Ponce City Market’s central food hall, is inspired by Thailand’s famous floating markets, where goods are sold from boats and riverbank stalls. — Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 30 July 2026 Twenty-nine single-family homes sold for $30 million or more in Miami-Dade in 2025, shattering the previous record of 15 homes in 2024. — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026

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Soon after those 2011 protests, Brand Modi was carefully marketed on television channels and burgeoning social media platforms as the redemptive opposite of the images, associations, and stereotypes attached to the corrupt and feckless system.

— Asim Ali, Time, 1 Aug. 2026
Why Rucking Appeals To Women For years, strength training was often marketed to men through bodybuilding, powerlifting or military imagery.

— Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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Thorne and Zendaya exchanged notes and realized the animosity between them wasn’t coming from either one.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2026
Since first participating in the CRS in 2018, offshore financial account information has been continuously exchanged with Chinese tax authorities.

— Anniek Bao,Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026