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verb

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Recent Examples of wholesale
Adjective
The water authority is the region’s wholesale water provider, with pipelines that connect to the state water project and the Colorado Aqueduct, Cole said. Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025 First, last week’s wholesale inflation data suggested the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of price pressures in the U.S. economy — known as the PCE index — may come in softer than feared later this month . Kevin Stankiewicz,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2025
Verb
The pair are sticking with a direct-to-consumer approach and will not be wholesaling, choosing instead to home in on providing superior customer experiences in their retail destinations in London, New York and Los Angeles. Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024 Today, women’s accounts for around 15 percent of sales but is only sold through the Billy Reid channels, and is not wholesaled. Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 11 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for wholesale
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wholesale
Adjective
  • Several companies have attempted commercial lunar landings in recent years.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The lander itself resembles those of the Apollo missions, and Scholtes said the company looked at the troubles seen both by other commercial landing attempts as well as government missions.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The medical record summaries quickly and accurately extract and organize vital medical information from extensive records, while the medical billing summaries meticulously report every medical expense.
    Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Every credit card review is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of credit card products.
    Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Mamma Mia, 3124 E. Belknap St., was founded in 2006 by the Kaba family, pioneers of simple, inexpensive neighborhood pizza-and-pasta cafes across North Texas.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The industry took off when families wanted convenient, satisfying, and inexpensive meals.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Many were Nigel Sylvester x Air Jordan 4s, which won’t be available to the public until March 14 and are expected to retail at $225 per pair, the complaint states.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Sellers on eBay are charging $25 to $40 for something that retailed for around $9.
    Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • On-going price increases have prompted organizations like The People’s Union USA to push back on corporate America.
    Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Among other notable corporate cuts, Citigroup and Sears, Roebuck & Co. each slashed about 50,000 jobs, in 2008 and 1993, respectively.
    Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The case has drawn widespread attention, raising concerns about the school’s handling of the situation and the broader issue of bullying tied to immigration under Donald Trump’s presidency.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Early in the pandemic, Janet Woodcock, then the head of the FDA’s drug center, reportedly sprang into action to prevent widespread distribution of the unproven COVID treatment hydroxychloroquine over the orders of top Trump officials.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The widespread impact of the fires, which displaced tens of thousands of people in an area with a severe shortage of affordable housing, created an extraordinary need for government services.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The San Diego City Council adopted the Bonus ADU Program in October 2020 to address the affordable housing crisis.
    Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Though disavowed by Trump during the presidential campaign, Project 2025 contains a wide variety of policy positions consistent with what the President has laid out and implemented through executive orders during his first six weeks in office.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Skagway residents frequently travel to Whitehorse, the territory’s capital, for a wider selection of groceries and shopping, dental care, veterinary services and swimming lessons.
    Dee-Ann Durbin and Sally Ho, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025

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“Wholesale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wholesale. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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