acquire

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MSA Safety will acquire Autronica Fire & Security from private-equity firm Sentinel Capital Partners for about $555 million.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

OpenAI started its consumer-hardware division last May, when it paid $6.5 billion in stock to acquire io, an AI company led by former Apple designer Jony Ive, and hired its staff of roughly 55.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

EBay stock surged in Monday’s premarket after GameStop said it has submitted a proposal to acquire the company for $125 per share or $56 billion.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

"We do this in a sequential way, and at each position, we acquire a diffraction pattern," Zhu explains.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

At least at the level of language, then, we need to recover the eighteenth-century context of things and not read back into those years the hallowed meanings they would acquire over the next century.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis