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acquire

[uh-kwahyuhr] / əˈkwaɪər /


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The document shows that the U.S. will pay nothing upfront but plans to acquire its stake in Betancourt’s company by paying $0.01 per warrant share.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Bloomberg article suggested SpaceX was looking to lease or acquire 80,000 cell sites across the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Additional funding from Biohub then made it possible to acquire a customized, state-of-the-art Thermo Fisher Krios cryo-EM microscope and modify it to accommodate the laser technology.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Pressure is something Kessler feels equipped to handle, even while acknowledging that the stakes are high and that all the noise about the high price the team paid to acquire him only increased the volume.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

As a result, each new ruler had to build his own palace and acquire the riches necessary to maintain it till the end of time.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Paramount Skydance’s streaming chief Cindy Holland is exiting the studio, clearing the way for HBO Chairman Casey Bloys to claim a key role in the company once Paramount acquires Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

"The charge a droplet acquires as it slides depends heavily on the specific surface -- we measured differences of up to a factor of ten," explains Zhongyuan Ni, the study's first author.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Brave, apprehensive, obtuse and brilliant, George acquires something new in this book: a bit of swagger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Goldman Sachs sees opportunity and acquires ETF company Neos.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

I don’t refer merely to the glaring fact that the minister eventually acquires houses and Cadillacs while the faithful continue to scrub floors and drop their dimes and quarters and dollars into the plate.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

Though most people recover, it can cause pneumonia, blindness and swelling in the brain, and erase the immune system’s memory, leading to easily acquired secondary infections.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Originally purchased by Singapore Airlines in the early 2000s, the jets were parked in China after being acquired by Ion Aviation, a Florida-registered company.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

As the company expanded and acquired other small manufacturers, the Gunds swore off layoffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

With financial support from Biohub, Müller acquired an advanced cryo-EM instrument and equipped it with the new laser phase plate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

In this way he acquired reputation and dominion over them without their noticing it.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Over the past year, Musk has moved to consolidate his businesses, with SpaceX acquiring xAI and X, formerly Twitter, before going public this year.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

SpaceX would do the acquiring, with Tesla investors swapping their shares for SpaceX stock; the resulting firm would be valued at something like $3.5 trillion.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

It didn’t hurt that by acquiring him they prevented other postseason contenders, including the Milwaukee Brewers, from landing the two-time Cy Young Award winner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Brown turned to Musk, whose SpaceX had excess capacity at its massive data center complexes after acquiring xAI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Stressing memorization, my teachers implied that education is largely a matter of acquiring knowledge already discovered.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez


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