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on the market

  1. For sale; also, available for buying. For example, We've put the boat on the market, or This is the only tandem bicycle on the market right now. This phrase, first put as in the market, dates from the late 1600s; the first recorded use of the phrase with on was in 1891. Also see drug on the market.



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Debt instruments based on the market value of the enslaved formed an integral part of the march of American capitalism.

Several studies this year — such as this one from Bristol University in Britain, this one from Galway in Ireland, and this one from Britain’s Cambridge University — have found that drugs already on the market, including weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy, can help materially lower your risk of getting dementia.

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Signs of trouble for FICO’s hold on the market emerged in 2006 when Equifax, Experian and TransUnion got together to create VantageScore.

It was put on the market in July at a weekly price of £4,110.

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The last of West’s former homes that are currently on the market is located in Hidden Hills; however, all that remains of the rapper’s legacy there is the land.

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