acquire
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They acquire them either from another zoo or a rescue, and there are only so many rescued capybaras.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
Uber Technologies offered to acquire Germany’s Delivery Hero for approximately $11.6 billion, or 33 euro per share.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
Initially, the plan was to acquire trees and move them quickly to their new homes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026
Florida’s NextEra Energy agreed to acquire Virginia’s Dominion Energy in a roughly $67 billion all-stock deal, the biggest merger tie-up this year so far.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
But often words do not simply change their meaning, rather they acquire new meanings, meanings which are sometimes apparently unrelated to their original meaning.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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