consignment

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Recent Examples of consignment There have been no reported deaths associated with the outbreak, which has been linked to a consignment of cucumbers produced by Agrotato, S.A. de C.V. in Sonora, Mexico. James Bickerton, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024 Check consignment shops and estate sales for vintage purses—which are often in excellent condition—from your gift recipient’s favorite brands. Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2024 Kona even has a consignment program to help support local authors! American Booksellers Association, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024 Spencer struck a deal for 10,000 square feet and agreed to sell some Designers View items on consignment. James Bartlett, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for consignment 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consignment
Noun
  • The Suez Canal, for example, is crucial for energy and cargo shipments moving between Asia and Europe.
    Steve Banker, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • They are then exported out of Haiti to Miami, where the cargo is again quickly loaded onto aircraft bound for China, where they are then raised for food.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Though fruit containers have proven reliable, drug traffickers also hide cocaine in shipments of cocoa beans, coffee, fish and porcelain vases, according to Izvestia's sources.
    Jon Jackson, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Seagate announced shipments of Exos M hard disk drives, HDD, samples to customers with up to 36TB storage capacity.
    Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • More than 60% of respondents said Lunar New Year freight, which consists of spring and summer products, were also frontloaded to avoid any supply chain disruption.
    Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Per Brookings analysis, this legislation has funneled an incredible $1.71 billion to the San Diego region over the past two years, like the $54 million replacement of the San Dieguito River Railway Bridge in Del Mar to ensure passenger and freight rail connections to Los Angeles and beyond.
    Adie Tomer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Considered a Trump loyalist, Noem has been praised by conservatives for her record as governor, which includes vocally opposing mask mandates and other COVID-era measures.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The role of the U.N. General Assembly’s Fifth Committee is not to second-guess mandates authorized by other U.N. bodies.
    Beth Bailey, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Hornets’ security, the Observer previously reported, typically places barricades outside the stadium’s loading dock area to keep pedestrians and fans at bay — particularly when a car is leaving.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Built in 1999, the building has recently been upgraded with a new roof, asphalt, loading areas and office improvements.
    Jessica Alvarado Gamez, The Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • If the case does proceed to trial, experts say, a jury could be turned off by the way DraftKings marketed its promotion offer to novice customers.
    Sean Gregory / Boston, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Pricing and promotions will also be a key to success.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In their world, there were more hands to share the load, more voices to call out, more feet to hold the line.
    Katherine Schulten, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Gigabyte was showing off a pair of high-end systems built out with the C500, in concert with the company’s AI TOP utility, which was being demoed with a feature linking the two systems via Thunderbolt and the two sharing the load of AI processing tasks.
    John Burek, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • However, TVLine may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes.
    Claire Franken, TVLine, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Still, both advisers said that the commission has the power to protect Europe’s sovereignty, and to force the platforms to be more transparent.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025

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“Consignment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consignment. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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