Example Sentences

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Cintas has been trying to buy UniFirst since as far back as February 2022, when it offered $255 a share, a 43% premium to where the stock had been trading.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Venezuela is more background noise than a primary driver, but together with Iran, the developments were “sufficient to shake a market that had been trading as if nothing bad could happen,” Innes said.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026

The largest digital asset had been trading above $90,000 last week before plunging on Sunday and into Monday to near $85,000.

From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025

It first appeared on June 27, 2021, in a thread on the WoodenBoat forum, a corner of the internet where fans had been trading reflections about Bourdain for years.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2025

I wasn’t used to being hungry for very long anymore, since I had been trading the miller for food whenever I wanted.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff