acquire
Example Sentences
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“I just said, like, ‘Look we don’t get a lot of opportunities to acquire a player like you, especially early in our program,’ and what better player to bring in early than Cooper Kupp.”
From Los Angeles Times
Across the landing, the Yellow Room also boasts expensive furnishings, especially the bed, which is covered in bright yellow damask, re-creating a bed Washington acquired in 1758.
Ben previously reported on M&A and finance in WSJ's New York office, writing about deals including Union Pacific's nearly $72 billion agreement to acquire Norfolk Southern and the bidding war over Warner Bros.
They expect us to “consider the source of their ideas, or the cultural influences upon them, which are often malign and give them perverse incentives to acquire the ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ with which they live.”
By the time it reached final inspection it had acquired a cloak of ruby-red metallic paint, diamond-white LED headlamps and a mouthful of metal grillework as bright as a tea service.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
