acquired
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Prosecutors said they suspected Hanning, the BND president from 1998 to 2005, used illegally acquired classified information to make money in the private sector for more than a decade after leaving public service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Third-quarter earnings later this month will also offer investors a “first real look” at adoption and monetization of SpaceX’s AI services such as Cursor and Grok Bot, which were acquired and launched this quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
By early 2026, they had acquired Valence, a prediction-market trading firm backed by Y Combinator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
She was forced to leave the Madrid flat where she had lived after it was acquired by an investment company that sought to increase her rent by 275 percent, according to housing campaigners.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Griffith autopsied the mice and found that the rough bacteria had changed: they had acquired the smooth coat—the virulence-determining factor—merely by contact with the debris from the dead bacteria.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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