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
Matt Cabral, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025
With the current blindsiding winds of change, if in the next few years a new trading currency were to emerge, the current U.S. dollar that fetches Canadian $1.44 would most likely fetch less than half of that.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2025
Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Too often, these virtual worlds are padded out simply to make the experience longer, inundated with enemy camps to take down and fruitless fetch quests that all feel copy-and-paste.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
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Verb
The injection hurts far more than usual, however, prompting Cara to fetch the doctor.
—Matt Cabral, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025
With the current blindsiding winds of change, if in the next few years a new trading currency were to emerge, the current U.S. dollar that fetches Canadian $1.44 would most likely fetch less than half of that.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
Animal lovers have been left in stitches by a dog whose joy for playing fetch comes out in an extraordinary way.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Too often, these virtual worlds are padded out simply to make the experience longer, inundated with enemy camps to take down and fruitless fetch quests that all feel copy-and-paste.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Fetch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fetch. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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