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Mary Earps, goalkeeper for England’s women’s national team, hit out at Nike in a press conference ahead of the 2023 Women’s World Cup over the sports manufacturer’s decision to not make her shirt available for public sale.
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Meg Linehan, The Athletic, 12 July 2024
In-person tickets to the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida venue start at $160 and go up for presale on October 28th, with public sales beginning the next day.
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Wes Davis, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2024
Some 3 million people tuned in to the broadcast on Chinese shopping platform Taobao, which was the first time a Chinese firm has put tickets for space tourism up for public sale.
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Simone McCarthy, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
In 2018, a Dutch court ruled that, while the painting was not confiscated before its public sale in 1940, the museum purchased it in good faith, without knowledge of its prewar history.
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Angelica Villa For Artnews, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2021
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First Known Use
1641, in the meaning defined above
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“Public sale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public%20sale. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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