bought

Example Sentences

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Another major public buyer of a downtown office building was Los Angeles County, which in 2024 bought Gas Co.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

“I wanted to make it very clear to the investors, I hear you, and we did not and never have bought an asset…because we needed the revenue,” McDermott said on the call.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Instead, it deducts it little by little over the projected useful life of the stuff being bought.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

It’s frustrating because they’re in their 70s, bought their home about 40 years ago and were able to pay it off under very different economic conditions.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Though he was far from convinced that the thing he had bought in the magic shop was really an egg, he was still nervous.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville