as in to stop
to bring (something) to a standstill
the driver fetched up the horse-drawn carriage in front of the church
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Fewer than 3,000 examples of the GTX were built, and restored variants are currently fetching up to $150,000.
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Sean Evans, Robb Report, 18 July 2024
Collectors are hungry for ceramics artist Jake Clark’s tributes to storied American hangouts, resulting in pieces that fetch up to five figures.
—Kyra Breslin, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
Jake Gyllenhaal has assumed Swayze’s role of the legendary bar bouncer named Dalton, here a former UFC fighter who has fetched up in the Florida Keys to save the fate of a gutbucket dive called — cue knowing laughter — the Road House.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
The manuscript alone is expected to fetch up to $1.2 million, given its unique significance and status as the most valuable Conan Doyle item ever offered at auction, a Sotheby’s statement said.
—Issy Ronald, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
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Sean Evans, Robb Report, 18 July 2024
Collectors are hungry for ceramics artist Jake Clark’s tributes to storied American hangouts, resulting in pieces that fetch up to five figures.
—Kyra Breslin, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
Jake Gyllenhaal has assumed Swayze’s role of the legendary bar bouncer named Dalton, here a former UFC fighter who has fetched up in the Florida Keys to save the fate of a gutbucket dive called — cue knowing laughter — the Road House.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
The manuscript alone is expected to fetch up to $1.2 million, given its unique significance and status as the most valuable Conan Doyle item ever offered at auction, a Sotheby’s statement said.
—Issy Ronald, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
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