acquirements
Example Sentences
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At $29.8 billion, the CBP/ICE portion of the DHS budget he praised was not just the highest ever but a $3 billion jump above 2022, including $2.7 billion for "new acquirements in our southwestern border."
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023
Who, Taney asked, do we think we are, to question what the Founders—men “high in literary acquirements, high in their sense of honor”—intended?
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2015
You need not trouble to write, as I no longer attach the slightest weight to anything you may say about your own acquirements & exploits.
From Time Magazine Archive
The affection of the whole family, the warm attachment of Miss Campbell in particular, was the more honourable to each party from the circumstance of Jane’s decided superiority both in beauty and acquirements.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
No Parliamentarian ever inspired so much dread in his opponents, and won so much applause from his friends, with so scanty a stock of statesmanlike acquirements.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
