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acquisitive

[uh-kwiz-i-tiv] / əˈkwɪz ɪ tɪv /


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Investors displeased with Apple’s slow AI momentum have long speculated that it could finally become acquisitive.

From MarketWatch May 1, 2026

Adora is also in possession of “one of the weirder jobs”: a fellowship from the partially paralyzed, mind-bogglingly rich descendant of a steel baron to provide moral training to his spoiled, acquisitive preteen twin sons.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

But Big Pharma has been acquisitive lately, as it seeks to stock its pipeline with developmental drugs aimed at growing market categories.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

It was a day in which an acquisitive foreign power had sent an uninvited delegation to the world's largest island with an uncomfortable message.

From BBC Mar. 29, 2025

Census records indicate that by 1910 he had moved to Pawhuska, apparently one of the legions of acquisitive, dreaming, desperate settlers.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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