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The companies also amended their deal terms to reduce the valuation of Black Knight to $11.7 billion, nearly 11% lower than the valuation it had fetched when the agreement was announced last year.

From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2023

If I had fetched my cell phone to snap a photo, he would have disappeared.

From Scientific American • Sep. 6, 2021

A petition on the Ben & Jerry’s website asking supporters to “join the resistance” had fetched nearly 400 signatures as of Tuesday afternoon.

From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2018

His prices have dropped since then: The 1996 colored spot painting “Benzhydrol” sold for $514,000 at Sotheby’s in May, while it had fetched $912,000 at Christie’s in 2006.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2015

He looked familiar; perhaps he was one of the neighborhood boys who had fetched water at the borehole before dawn.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie