in the sales
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: at a time when many stores have a sale
I bought these shoes in the sales.
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This can be helpful for ensuring that every lead ends up in the sales pipeline.
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PC Magazine, 20 May 2025
Those catastrophic floods — which left some residents in financial ruins or sparked multimillion-dollar government drainage projects — aren’t even visible blips in the sales data, Bozovic said.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 May 2025
Interest in the phone is at a high, with 9to5Mac predicting the Air could soar in the sales charts thanks to its thin profile, for a start.
—David Phelan, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
However, a recent analysis from researchers at UCLA and Rand Corp. estimated housing construction is likely falling more in the city than elsewhere in L.A. County, citing a steeper reduction in the sales of properties where developers tend to build multifamily housing.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
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PC Magazine, 20 May 2025
Those catastrophic floods — which left some residents in financial ruins or sparked multimillion-dollar government drainage projects — aren’t even visible blips in the sales data, Bozovic said.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 May 2025
Interest in the phone is at a high, with 9to5Mac predicting the Air could soar in the sales charts thanks to its thin profile, for a start.
—David Phelan, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
However, a recent analysis from researchers at UCLA and Rand Corp. estimated housing construction is likely falling more in the city than elsewhere in L.A. County, citing a steeper reduction in the sales of properties where developers tend to build multifamily housing.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
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