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The phrase "a dry goods" is not correct in written English.
The correct expression is "dry goods" without the article "a."
Example: "The store specializes in selling dry goods such as fabrics and grains."
Alternatives: "dry merchandise" or "non-perishable items."
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His father owned a dry goods store.
"My dad had a dry goods store.
But you're defending your investments like a dry goods merchant".
The cart turns into a fruit and vegetable stand, and that into a dry goods store.
A dry goods warehouse was still smoldering from a recent rocket attack.
There is a shoe-repair shop here, and a dry goods store specializing in corsetry.
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I'll give you two farmers and a dry-goods merchant for a fiery abolitionist.
Her mother was a teacher, and her father owned a dry-goods store.
His parents were Jewish emigrants from what is now Belarus, and his father worked as a dry-goods salesman.
Charles Joseph Genster was born Sept. 5, 1917, in Sheffield, Ill., where his parents owned a dry-goods store.
The shop, originally a dry-goods store, bears the name of Elias Pelletreau, a silversmith and Revolutionary War figure.
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