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  • past participle of buy.
  • past tense form of buy.
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bought

[bawt] / bɔt /
ADJECTIVE
purchased
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BTG Eddisons could not disclose whether St Mary's was bought by a commercial or private buyer.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

When Turner bought his first bison in the late 1970s, perhaps only 30,000 of them remained in North America, a fraction of the tens of millions that once covered the Great Plains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Private investment company ADUG, owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, bought City in 2008 and has transformed the club from also-rans into a dominant force.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

“I bought this little house and the kids were born here. So it’s been kind of a dream to be here long enough to see that happen.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

This kind of stuff started to happen more often once PCP bought an apartment building in the heart of North Davey called Millwood Manor.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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