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The airline already had been selling off aircraft and scaling back its operations, and executives realized Spirit needed to do more, according to people familiar with their thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

The Sheikhs had been selling them online for £15 to £20 a box.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

Jewelry brand Phillips House, which had been selling to Saks for more than a decade, started noticing missed payments in March 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Before the US president's order, Venezuela had been selling its oil at up to 35 percent below market price, according to Francisco Monaldi, an economist at the Baker Institute, a think tank in Texas.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

Even if Nine had been selling the mushrooms with the promise that they’d make toads sprout wings, it wouldn’t matter; for soon, Clare would be gone, Nine’s little mushroom business along with him.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman