acquired
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When Michele Kang acquired London City Lionesses in December 2023, it would have been a wild prediction to say Alexia Putellas would join as a player two and a half years later.
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2026
Looney will be the backup behind starter Walker Kessler, who was acquired in a trade from the Utah Jazz and agreed to a four-year, $130-million deal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2026
A museum spokesperson added that it was “highly symbolic for the museum as it was the first to be acquired with a view to the museum’s creation.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026
TeraWulf said it had acquired the Hawesville site, a former Century Aluminum facility, in February.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 6, 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
Vocabulary lists containing acquired
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 12–15
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Evolutionary Biology - Adaptation
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STAAR Biology: Biological Evolution and Classification
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