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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sell by" is not correct in written English.
The correct term is "sell-by" which refers to a date indicating when a product should be sold or consumed by.
Example: "Make sure to check the sell-by date on the milk before purchasing it."
Alternatives: "expiration date" or "best before date".
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In Montana, for instance, milk must come with a "sell by" label.
A "sell by," "use by" or "best if used by" date.
Some producers include a "sell by" date that's largely meant for use by retailers.
Tira Harpaz, writing for the blog Feministing, quipped that women "have a sell by date and after that we're pretty disposable".
Many of the fresh products recalled bore a "sell by" or "best before" date of May 2 or May 3. Telephone calls to the company were not returned on Saturday.
The legislation which at first insisted that food had a "sell by" date started as a very laudable way of ensuring that retailers could not pass off old food as fresh.
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There's a sell-by date.
Frozen meat does not require a sell-by date.
But obviously youth has a sell-by date.
It's just that every joke has a sell-by date.
"Aid is not successful unless it has a sell-by date," he says.
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