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
The new California law or Assembly Bill 1830 requires most tortillas and corn masa products sold to contain folic acid, a vitamin important to infant health, according to CalMatters.
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Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
january 12, Sacbee.com, 12 Jan. 2026
The building was sold in 1951 for $600 and turned into a home, records show.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 12 Jan. 2026
Gemini will assess people’s purchasing intent — for example an inquiry about removing a wine stain out of a rug could lead to links for related products sold at Walmart.
—Jaewon Kang, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2026
With Pierpoint sold and stripped for parts, the original grads have graduated again; this time, to the open market, where fresh and familiar fortune hunters loom as obstacles or emerge as assets.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Jan. 2026
Commercial chicken eggs are washed before being sold, and will typically last a little over a month in the refrigerator.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2026
And unlike traditional loans, it is backed by the property, not through a personal guarantee by the owner, so it can be transferred to new owners if the property is sold.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
Identity Theft companies can monitor personal information like your Social Security number (SSN), phone number and email address, and alert you if it is being sold on the dark web or being used to open an account.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Jan. 2026
Christian Munck never owned one of the 80 million copies sold, but dug deep into the dramaturgy once he was cast as Langdon in the Palo Alto Players’ production.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sold
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Opioids and benzodiazepines are the most obvious examples of drugs that at first seemed — and were marketed as — totally harmless treatments, only to carry massive social and personal consequences once prescribed to millions.—
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Musk has marketed Grok as more fun and irreverent than other chatbots, taking pride in X being a place for free speech.—
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Beanies retailed for the lowest price tag and bold futuristic sunglasses were the highest.—
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Right next to the indoor test drives of its electric vehicles, Hyundai also had a coffee stand, where guests could order lattes and cappuccinos made with a coffee machine powered electrically by the Hyundai IONIQ 5, a car that retailed for $35,000-$49,000 this year.—
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Reza Pahlavi himself has distributed messages calling for defections among the armed forces, and coordinated protests through QR codes.—
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Standing 165 centimeters tall and weighing 71 kilograms, the GR-3 offers 55 degrees of freedom and is equipped with tactile sensors distributed across its body for responsive interaction.—
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The one that quite possibly tipped the scales were the texts Phelps exchanged about team owner Richard Childress with O’Donnell and NASCAR executive vice president Brian Herbst.—
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The teams exchanged baskets the rest of the quarter with Xaverian going into the half with a 26-25 lead.—
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“Sold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sold. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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