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There is a theory that the £50m spent to acquire Andrey Santos from Chelsea should have been diverted elsewhere.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

They already don’t control their first-round pick until 2032 after sending two first-round picks and two first-round pick swaps to Utah to acquire Kessler this summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Silence Therapeutics stock surges as Merck KGaA agrees to acquire the RNA drugmaker for over $1 billion.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

First, the ultimately failed bid to acquire major bits of Warner Bros.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Classic style ignores the hired help and looks directly at what they are being paid to study: All children acquire the ability to speak a language without explicit lessons.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"Understanding how gluons behave inside nuclei is therefore essential to understanding how matter itself acquires its mass and structure."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 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

He encounters dangerous people but also acquires friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

When one person secretly acquires more food than the others have there is an inequality of food distribution in the community.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

The stage for the possible marriage was set this year when SpaceX acquired Musk’s privately held xAI company in a $1.25-trillion deal that brought the AI company’s assets to the rocket maker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The US had in 2022 secured the right to sell the property on grounds that it was acquired through "criminal proceeds and misappropriated Gambian public funds".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

A possible merger between the companies has been a hot topic on Wall Street, especially after SpaceX acquired Musk’s xAI in February.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Fernandez suggests that the aging brain may be adapting to help individuals preserve and share the knowledge they have acquired throughout their lives.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

For attending Shabbos dinners and banquets hosted by the burial society, I had acquired a secondhand dress coat.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

The duo reached over $300 billion in assets under management by marketing “retail” funds to wealthy individuals and acquiring at least eight companies, starting in 2021 with Dyal, a fund-manager stakes business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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

There are many examples throughout history of people acquiring power and wealth through conquest.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz