as in sale
a public event at which things are sold to the people who offer to pay the most
She bought the desk at an auction. He made several bids at the auction.
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Recent Examples of auction
Sarah Douglas,
ARTnews.com,
2 July 2026
It is now expected to sell for between £100,000 and £150,000 (about $133,000 to $199,000) at a new auction held by Sotheby's.
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Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
2 July 2026
Jennifer Hassan,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
Valentina brought kettle corn to auction off and plans to finish making a purple crochet bag for the fair’s Home Economics competition.
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Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2026
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Noun
Artworks haven’t been the only Schiff material in the auctions.
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Sarah Douglas,
ARTnews.com,
2 July 2026
It is now expected to sell for between £100,000 and £150,000 (about $133,000 to $199,000) at a new auction held by Sotheby's.
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Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
2 July 2026
Verb
When asked if the Jaguar XJ40 is the most famous vehicle the company has auctioned, Livesey was quick to share that the auction platform has a history of selling cars with links to the rich and famous.
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Jennifer Hassan,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
Valentina brought kettle corn to auction off and plans to finish making a purple crochet bag for the fair’s Home Economics competition.
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Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auction
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The court declined, however, to review a challenge to a federal ban on handgun sales to 18- to 20-year-olds, as well as to a similar Florida state law.
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Jessica Gonzalez hustles behind her booth at the recent Renegade Craft Fair, frantically ringing up sales, answering questions and packaging her beeswax candles.
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Lindsay also discusses the brand’s expansion of IP, including Pablo Sanchez, from video games to merchandise and streaming programming.
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But mutual contempt was perhaps an even less promising foundation to build a country on than merchandising.
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The NBCUniversal spin-off is envisioned as a tax-free transaction for shareholders, providing a short-term buffer from deal-making to preserve that structure.
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Average transaction values for travel are still high, more than $31,000, but travelers are scrutinizing their receipts and pushing back when rate hikes don't come with better service.
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Bryan West Moments after Swift and Kelce exchanged vows, rain and flashes of lightning swept across Manhattan outside Madison Square Garden.
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Shortly after the couple exchanged vows at Madison Square Garden, their names went up in lights—literally.
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But the prices for the vast majority of stickers are pretty low, which means that no vulture is out there buying up all the sticker packs and trying to resell them at inflated prices to impressionable children hoping to win the lottery.
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Reese adds that Goodwill accepts clothing too worn to resell and recycles the textiles instead.
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The loadout on sale here differs from our review model in a few ways, notably swapping an AMD Ryzen 5 processor in for the poky 12th-generation Intel Core i3 and doubling the RAM.
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Each worker is small enough to reason about on its own, easy to evaluate in isolation and easy to swap when a better model comes along.
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But the move has at times faced criticism from those who point out that new customers still must purchase Starlink receivers to access the service.
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Index inclusion typically leads passive funds and ETFs that track the benchmark to purchase shares as part of their regular rebalancing process.
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The two sides will bargain behind closed doors, and away from journalists and influencers, and eventually reach a compromise both can live with.
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The curbing of telework comes as a blow to SEIU Local 1000, the only state worker union bargaining a new contract with the Newsom administration this year.
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“Auction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auction. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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