bought off

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Or her Delhi architecture school days, when she was too broke for jewellery and wore "cow beads" - fat glass beads strung across cow horns, bought off herdsmen near the hostel.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

It’s modern and sparse, lacking personal details save for a random, small canvas on the wall that she made in a Sip ’n’ Paint class she bought off Groupon a few years back.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

Now that I am older and the bike I ride is more expensive than the 20-inch kids bike my dad bought off Craigslist, I am more invested in not having it get stolen.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023

Fall semester, I was worrying about essays being bought off the internet—hard to police, but usually so off-topic that students do poorly anyway.

From Slate • May 4, 2023

Despite all this, the private detectives somehow failed to secure enough evidence to prosecute any of the suspects, or perhaps the private eyes were bought off.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann