acquire

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Shares of Netflix, which abandoned its deal to acquire Warner Bros. in February, slipped 0.5% to $98.20 on Monday.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

It introduced some reforms, the main one being a requirement that agencies acquire a warrant when searching 702 material for the exclusive purpose of collecting evidence of a crime.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Find insight on AstraZeneca, Biogen’s deal to acquire Apellis Pharmaceuticals, and more in the latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“When people are deploying capital, figuring out how much land to acquire or how many building permits to pull, they need to know how much the cost is to build a home.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 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