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Tracy Morgan has fetched up in a multicamera, filmed-before-a-live-audience situation comedy, “Crutch.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

An oil painting of a Māori elder has fetched a record price at an auction on Tuesday, making it the most valuable artwork of its kind in New Zealand history.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024

No other country has fetched pieces of asteroids, preserved time capsules from the dawn of our solar system that can help explain how Earth — and life — came to be.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023

They usually sell for between $350,000 and $500,000, but one has fetched $11.7 million, and Bored Ape NFTs, which were released more recently, are also selling in the millions.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2021

It is set up in a crater alongside us; Berger has fetched it, and now the counter-attack comes over from behind; we are set free and make contact with the rear.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque