acquisition
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It expects the acquisition to be complete by the end of the summer.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Australia’s Sigma Healthcare said it is involved in early discussions about a potential acquisition of U.K. drugstore chain Boots.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The softer services advance was tied to an outright decline of 1.1% in the margins for trade services, a metric that tracks the difference between selling prices and acquisition costs.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
When rumors swirled in March 2021 that Rocket Lab planned to go public via a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company, Vector Acquisition Corp.,
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
The result is the typical opening of an academic paper: In recent years, an increasing number of psychologists and linguists have turned their attention to the problem of child language acquisition.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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