acquire
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From Wednesday, British pet owners are no longer able travel with their animals using the EU pet passport scheme and instead have to acquire a new animal heath certificate each time they go abroad.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Since the market-to-net-asset-value, or mNAV, had dropped from almost three times to one, Executive Chairman Saylor changed tack and began issuing high-yielding preferred shares to acquire bitcoin.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026
They traded their fifth-round pick to acquire Oweh in October and gave the Tennessee Titans their seventh rounder in a 2024 trade for safety Elijah Molden.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Peter Nowell, a pathologist, argued in 1976 that cancers arise from a single mutant cell and then evolve, as offspring acquire new mutations and compete for dominance—a prediction that single-cell sequencing has dramatically confirmed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
I wonder if I can muster up the energy to acquire another persona.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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