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With a lack of scripted content finished on time, reality television and acquisitions of already produced international shows have been used to fill the gap.

From Fortune

Microsoft is the only company to publicly confirm acquisition talks.

From Fortune

Benioff hinted that Salesforce is unlikely to go on an acquisition spree.

From Fortune

LinkedIn’s registered user base has grown from 400 million people at the time the acquisition closed in December 2016 to 706 million people as of July 2020.

From Digiday

Former House speaker Paul Ryan is starting a special purpose acquisition company that will seek to raise about $300 million, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.

From Fortune

The user fee on duck stamps goes exclusively to funding federal acquisition of wetlands as wildlife habitat.

“EOTS is a poster child for one of the ills of the acquisition process,” the official said.

ISIS had broadly advertised its acquisition of a broad range of U.S.-made weapons during its rampage across Iraq.

Last year, the company raised funding at a $2 billion valuation and shot down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook.

Whoever pulled the trigger (so to speak) on this acquisition may have just been caught up in the moment.

In brief, Chumru abused the English with such an air that he was regarded by the rebels as quite an acquisition.

It is skirted by houses and gardens and is a valuable acquisition to the town.

John Bones, lawyer, age twenty-six, was a recent acquisition to Coldriver village.

And his mind at least was happy in its new sense of expansion and acquisition, its increasing and developing powers.

It is when studies requiring abstruse thought are reached that the facility in acquisition of the savage races comes to an end.

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On this page you'll find 102 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to acquisition, such as: addition, gain, procurement, purchase, recovery, and accretion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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