as in to cost
to have a price of
those old toys that we tossed away are now fetching big bucks as antiques
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as in ruse
a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end
his latest fetch to win back his girlfriend smacks of desperation
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as in replica
something or someone that strongly resembles another
with its standard assortment of chain stores and central food court, the new mall is pretty much the fetch of 1,000 other malls
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Recent Examples of fetch
Jordan Novet, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
Holland is due for a large contract extension and could fetch a price similar to Xavier McKinney and Antoine Winfield Jr., both of whom are now paid in the top 10 at the position.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Mikel Delgado, a senior research scientist at Purdue who led the study, said prior to their research, it was well established that some cats play fetch.
—Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
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Copilot Chat can fetch information from the web and summarize text in uploaded documents, and people using it can create agents that perform tasks in the background.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
Holland is due for a large contract extension and could fetch a price similar to Xavier McKinney and Antoine Winfield Jr., both of whom are now paid in the top 10 at the position.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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While movies fans have been saying it for years —fetch is one of the more memorable terms and lines spoken in a movie chock full of quotes — Chabert's daughter has now spoken it her.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Mikel Delgado, a senior research scientist at Purdue who led the study, said prior to their research, it was well established that some cats play fetch.
—Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
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“Fetch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fetch. Accessed 25 Jan. 2025.
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