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taken or created from something original or basic
memoirs filled with secondhand stories about show-business celebrities
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The brand’s stylish yet technical hiking gear can be bought new or secondhand, rented, or repaired at its Stockholm flagship.
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Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2025
Which means, for people who can’t wait 75 days to return to for-you-pages, coughing up a few hundred online for a secondhand phone might be the only answer for now.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
The global market for secondhand clothing is expected to reach $351 billion by 2027, according to a 2023 report from the online thrift store thredUp (TDUP).
—Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2025
Find a cool secondhand outfit for your partner to wear to dinner that night, challenge each other to see who can find the most interesting item, or create a scavenger hunt and whoever gets the most on the list wins.
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—Erin Reimel, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
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Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2025
Which means, for people who can’t wait 75 days to return to for-you-pages, coughing up a few hundred online for a secondhand phone might be the only answer for now.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
The global market for secondhand clothing is expected to reach $351 billion by 2027, according to a 2023 report from the online thrift store thredUp (TDUP).
—Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2025
Find a cool secondhand outfit for your partner to wear to dinner that night, challenge each other to see who can find the most interesting item, or create a scavenger hunt and whoever gets the most on the list wins.
30.
—Erin Reimel, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Secondhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondhand. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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