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Discover LudwigThe phrase "fetch a record" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to retrieving a specific record or item from a list, such as retrieving a medical record from a hospital's database. For example, "The doctor asked his assistant to fetch a record from the patient's medical history."
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Next month a painting by another less popular Abstract Expressionist is expected to fetch a record price at auction.
And the ball is expected to fetch a record price when it is sold on Thursday at Leland's, an auction house specializing in sports memorabilia.
That stone, the 12.03-carat "Blue Moon", described by experts as flawless, is being sold on Wednesday and could fetch a record $55m.
In any case, it was a unique piece, singular even among the works of an artist for whom singularity was the rule; it could hardly fail to fetch a record price.
The world's most expensive domain namesSEX.COM is set to fetch a record $13m for a domain name on Wednesday October 27th when a Californian bankruptcy court meets to decide on the deal.
A stunning and rare diamond is to go on sale in Hong Kong in a little over a month and is expected to fetch a record price of nearly $20m £12.8mm).
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A 1794 US "Flowing Hair Silver Dollar" fetched a record $10m at auction in New York a year ago.
A year ago, a rare alloy-body SL300 Gullwing fetched a record $4.6 million at a Gooding & Company auction in Arizona.
It fetched a record £12.6m at auction in 2003.
In a Sotheby's auction three years ago, Magna Carta fetched a record $21 million.
Recently a vintage crocodile Birkin fetched a record €63,800 at auction in Paris.
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