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purchase

[pur-chuhs] / ˈpɜr tʃəs /
NOUN
possession obtained with money
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WEAK




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Such strategies can involve the purchase and sale of large quantities of stock over time.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

By agreeing to the arrangement, users were signed up for a scheme where they agreed to purchase a certain number of products over a specific amount of time at full price.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2026

The most expensive purchase, she calculates, were the windows at £30,000, while one of the cheapest measures was making the whole house airtight, which cost £5,000.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

In quarterly earnings published this month, Apollo said it gained $65 billion in fee-paying assets to manage in the second quarter thanks to Athora’s purchase of PIC.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Thus Howie Hubler’s personal purchase of $16 billion in triple-A-rated CDOs dwindled to something like $13 billion.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

China’s oil purchases remain at their lowest level in nearly a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

Columbia House drew further claims of bad business by allegedly refusing to acknowledge payments, discounting items so that users’ purchases fell just below the agreed-upon threshold and being a notoriously difficult subscription to terminate.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2026

Such measures could include increased bond purchases beyond the scale announced the day before.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

The Treasury said it would at least double its purchases of longer-dated government bonds in an effort to bring down long-term borrowing costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

For the second half of the experiment, Dijksterhuis went to the furniture store IKEA, where people were making much more complicated and expensive purchases.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Evidence indicates many of the purchased books are sent to facilities where they are sliced up, scanned and destroyed.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

He purchased a rare first-edition copy of the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

But the government rejects the criticism, arguing that it has invested in ground-based resources, which it says are more effective, and purchased helicopters for water-bombing operations, with deliveries of the aircraft under way.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

In interviews, she has been unsparing about what she sees as coming next in American media consolidation, warning that a CNN controlled by David Ellison — who purchased Paramount and CBS — would be “tragic.”

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

I opened the picture book I’d purchased for the class so I could take a closer look.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

With first-come, first-serve purchasing, the ticketing platform will remain open continuously through the Games.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Haber said he believes the loss of tax revenue from fewer people purchasing pricey homes in New York would offset the effects of the pied-à-terre tax.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

S&P Global said its purchasing managers’ index for the eurozone—which measures activity in the services and manufacturing sectors—rose to 52.1 in August from 52.0 in July to reach its highest level in nine months.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Yet she enjoyed the challenge of this lyrical and experimental work, eventually purchasing a first edition of the novel and a reissue from 1960.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Their increased purchasing power afforded them summer vacations to the beach or the mountains.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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