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acquire

[uh-kwahyuhr] / əˈkwaɪər /


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Understanding these developmental signals could provide new clues about how synovial fibroblasts acquire their functions and potentially reveal ways to restore their normal protective behavior in arthritis.

From Science Daily Sep. 5, 2026

She cold-called business brokers and small firms, “scouring the earth trying to find something” to acquire and run.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Instead of using the loan proceeds to acquire Project Exodus as promised, 4 13 Solutions used the $2.5 million to pay Wilson Holdings, apparently for money that Wilson Holdings had previously invested.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Ordinary people acquire one more linguistic choice through which to signal agreement, resistance or exhausted indifference.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

I’m sorry you’re bored, but please find a hobby that does not involve living things, or learn more about why you’d actually want chickens before you acquire your own.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

Goldman Sachs sees opportunity and acquires ETF company Neos.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

If Paramount Skydance acquires Warner Bros., production will likely shift to the Warner Bros. lot, with Paramount leased or sold.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

The research expands on decades of work exploring how the brain acquires new abilities.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

The company acquires niche software firms, integrating a central AI operating system as part of a strategy that has driven over 50% Ebitda growth for its portfolio.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

It’s the kind of wisdom that someone acquires after a lifetime of learning and watching and doing.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

For Lozano, acquired from San Diego on loan less than a month ago, the assist was his first with his new team.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

He netted $2.2 million when Motorola acquired the body camera firm in 2019, according to his income tax return from that year.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

Central banks globally have substantial holdings of government bonds and mortgage-backed securities, much of that acquired as part of quantitative-easing programs.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

Studios which had been acquired by Xbox - including Compulsion Games, which made the Bafta-winning South of Midnight and Double Fine Productions, makers of Psychonauts - were also made independent again.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

By then it was clear that $700 billion was a sum insufficient to grapple with the troubled assets acquired over the previous few years by Wall Street bond traders.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

But five first-round draft choices eliminated for the Clippers, a team that was already acquiring draft picks in an obvious rebuild!

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Somewhere in the space between obvious joke and well, would you really be surprised?, a meme had begun acquiring the texture of consumer advice.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

Victory Capital is acquiring First Eagle from Genstar Capital and First Eagle employees, with the transaction expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

While the majority of its public supports a nuclear South Korea, the government has argued that acquiring the bomb is unnecessary and even harmful to the country's network of alliances.

From BBC Aug. 20, 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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