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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fetch .
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Examples
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Japan: Ministry hopes 1880 ¥2 coin fetches 10 million times that
COLLECTING COINS IN DIFFICULT ECONOMIC TIMES : Coin Collecting News 2008
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Today a barrel of oil once again fetches around $40, but twenty years 'worth of inflation, combined with a population explosion, has brought per capita income down to below $7,000.
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Today a barrel of oil once again fetches around $40, but twenty years 'worth of inflation, combined with a population explosion, has brought per capita income down to below $7,000.
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The saddles are taken off, and serve for chairs; a running spring close by among the bushes supplies us with clear water; and Clementi again fetches cream from a milk-farm a little farther on.
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I had heard snatches of stories concerning "fetches" - the simulacrum of the living appearing to those away, generally foretelling death.
Year of the Unicorn Norton, Andre 1965
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Japan: Ministry hopes 1880 ¥2 coin fetches 10 million times that
COLLECTING COINS IN DIFFICULT ECONOMIC TIMES : Coin Collecting News 2008
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Her implicit belief in the wonders of second sight, and the strange tales she told of this mysterious faculty, used to astonish not a little her sober English friends; and it will be seen, that, at so late a period as the death of his friend Shelley, the idea of fetches and forewarnings impressed upon him by his mother had not wholly lost possession of the poet's mind.
Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854
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Ron buzzed up: Rare coin fetches over £2.3 million in auction
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Ron buzzed up: Rare coin fetches over £2.3 million in auction
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Ron buzzed up: Rare coin fetches over £2.3 million in auction
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