bought off
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Or her Delhi architecture school days, when she was too broke for jewellery and wore "cow beads" - fat glass beads strung across cow horns, bought off herdsmen near the hostel.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025
It’s modern and sparse, lacking personal details save for a random, small canvas on the wall that she made in a Sip ’n’ Paint class she bought off Groupon a few years back.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024
Ian J. Stones was convicted of being bought off to provide intelligence to “external forces,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said when asked about the case at a daily briefing.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024
Fall semester, I was worrying about essays being bought off the internet—hard to police, but usually so off-topic that students do poorly anyway.
From Slate • May 4, 2023
Also because it has this big old madman desk in it that D.B. bought off some lady alcoholic in Philadelphia, and this big, gigantic bed that's about ten miles wide and ten miles long.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
