acquired
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The team acquired Thomas, who’s strong defensively but has some big cleats to fill in replacing the offensive production of Pages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
World Labs, the startup headed by Stanford professor and Google veteran—and “godmother of AI”—Fei-Fei Li, recently acquired robotics company Scenix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Harvest was acquired by the Italian tech company Bending Spoons in 2025, and changed its pricing structure the following year.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
In March 2024, the company acquired Credova, a point-of-sale financing company with a particular focus on providing buy-now-pay-later loans for firearms, in an all-stock deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In the beginning of 1666, he tells his readers, he acquired a prism.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing acquired
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 12–15
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Evolutionary Biology - Adaptation
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STAAR Biology: Biological Evolution and Classification
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