acquire
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The U.A.E. also clinched a deal with the U.S. to acquire the F-35, though that agreement has been stalled for half a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
That means now is the time to acquire a catching option they may or may not need later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
The company spent more than $80 billion to acquire game studios—and bring major franchises like Call of Duty and Fallout onto the platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Last week, a still-unconfirmed report in Puck stated that Netflix is entering initial talks to acquire Letterboxd, the film-logging and review platform beloved by hardcore and casual cinephiles alike.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
It would however be simply wrong to think that we and Aristotle share the same views about what constitutes a justified true belief, and about how to acquire such beliefs.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The research expands on decades of work exploring how the brain acquires new abilities.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Individuals can’t request debt relief because the nonprofit acquires bundled debt for thousands of people at once.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
And yet invisibility makes that power easier to expand because citizens stop feeling the intrusion even while the state acquires increasingly intimate access to ordinary life.
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
"This brings us closer to answering deep, fundamental questions about how matter acquires mass, as well as how the vacuum structure changes inside atomic nuclei."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
When a culture grows big enough, it acquires an elite, which needs to monitor things it considers important: money, stored goods, births and deaths, the progression of time.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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“Over the past several months, we’ve made significant progress integrating the NFL assets that we acquired into ESPN,” Pitaro wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Legend "says that the marambas acquired atas when they arrived in Sumba".
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Netflix has already acquired U.S. rights for the 2027 and 2031 Women’s World Cups, paying a total of about $300 million for both events, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Combs’ Miami real estate holdings are made up of two neighboring Star Island properties that he acquired nearly two decades apart.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Savant means that my math skills are far beyond normal, and acquired means I wasn’t born with this wacky ability.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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Buyers have several options for acquiring a home loan: banks, credit unions, mortgage brokers or direct lenders.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
The reports also said Paris had considered acquiring the software.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Paramount is the smallest of the major media companies and acquiring Warner Bros. is key to David Ellison’s ambitions to build a new Hollywood colossus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Landmaxxing”—the quest to optimize one’s land holdings by acquiring more acreage—drove the luxury market during the first part of the year, according to a new midyear report from Coldwell Banker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
“I wonder how one would go about acquiring industrial-strength blue dye,” she said, and then held a tree branch back for me.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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