acquired
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The Yankees were well aware of this when they acquired Caballero from the Tampa Bay Rays last July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The organization’s media division includes the San Francisco Examiner — which Reilly acquired in 2020 alongside its now-defunct affiliate SF Weekly — and the Nob Hill Gazette, which he bought in 2016.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Los Angeles Galaxy held the discovery rights for Casemiro but in announcing the player's signing, Inter Miami said they had acquired the rights from the Galaxy.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Cybersecurity has been a key growth driver for ServiceNow, which recently acquired cybersecurity firms Armis and Veza.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Weismann had proposed a radical alternative: perhaps hereditary information was contained exclusively in sperm and egg cells, with no direct mechanism for an acquired characteristic to be transmitted into sperm or eggs.
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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