acquisitive
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Investors displeased with Apple’s slow AI momentum have long speculated that it could finally become acquisitive.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
Jacobs has built QXO into a leading building-materials firm with more than $2 billion in quarterly sales, using the same acquisitive approach he applied to enterprises in waste management and logistics.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
But Big Pharma has been acquisitive lately, as it seeks to stock its pipeline with developmental drugs aimed at growing market categories.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Deputy Chief Constable Jayne Meir, the NPCC's first lead for freight crime, said a new team at Opal - a police intelligence unit tackling organised acquisitive crime - would start targeting the issue next year.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025
The tokens controversy was, I suppose, all part of our getting more acquisitive as we grew older.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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