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Since Walter took over, the team has spent lavishly to acquire superstar talent such as Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani, and the club has deferred some of the biggest contract payments deep into the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

“You do not need to acquire all three; you can acquire any number of them, so long as each replacement property you acquire is among the identified properties.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

For “Drag Race” production designer Jen Chu, the ability to acquire raw materials in a short period of time is game-changing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

At some participating businesses, fans will be able to acquire limited-edition merchandise and Laufey-themed specialty drinks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Even paintings acquire a new prominence by protruding slightly from the curved walls, instead of receding into them.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Goldman Sachs sees opportunity and acquires ETF company Neos.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

The organization acquires medical debt in bulk from hospitals, physician groups, collection agencies and other groups for a fraction of the cost.

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

When one person secretly acquires more food than the others have there is an inequality of food distribution in the community.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

The team acquired Thomas, who’s strong defensively but has some big cleats to fill in replacing the offensive production of Pages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

The venture earlier this year acquired the right of way and plans for a pipeline project that has been passed between various companies in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Venture-capital investors profit when those portfolio companies get acquired or go public at valuations that can be, in rare instances, exponentially higher than the early investors paid for their stakes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The business has a track record of raising prices in companies it has acquired in the past.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

He had learned mathematics largely without paper or pen and thus acquired the ability to visualize problems in his mind’s eye before writing equations on paper.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In 2016, he spent more than $1 billion acquiring and investing in a 40% stake in PetroDelta for six oil fields, with the Venezuelan government holding the remainder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Wellpointe has nine senior housing complexes in the San Fernando Valley, but it has had difficulty acquiring enough single-family homes in the area to significantly expand its presence, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Taiwan has been boosting defence spending for years and acquiring smaller and more nimble weaponry, including drones, to enable its military to wage asymmetric warfare against China.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

One result: Private-equity firms have been acquiring physician groups and outpatient facilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

They were some time acquiring a stove and when they did find what they wanted, a silver-scrolled monster with floriated warming ovens and a front like a nickel-plated tulip garden, they had trouble getting it.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck