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[bahy] / baɪ /






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In May, the powerful Imperial Irrigation District nixed Rucci’s plan to buy farmland, leave it fallow and use the allotted water from the Colorado River to cool the data center.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

“If helping me buy a better blender also helps pay for an investigative reporter, I’m fine with it,” said Andrew Heyward, a former CBS News president who has consulted for TV station groups.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

"If there's an emergency in the city, I know I'll still be able to buy basic necessities, even if the mobile network goes down."

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

“I think a lot of us weren’t prepared for the way that having tons of choices for what to buy and where to buy them would become kind of paralyzing.”

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

As usual I wandered through the aisles, looking at all the things I wished I could buy.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Some financial experts told MarketWatch that reaching a net worth in the top 10% surprisingly only buys a “middle-class wealthy” lifestyle, meaning a household that can mostly do what it wants but not live lavishly.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

Nationalisation buys it time and gives it the power and freedom to decide on the future of the plant, while keeping the blast furnaces going.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Attar, an electrical engineer who lived in Iraq until 2008, buys vehicles at auctions, makes repairs, then resells them, according to a deposition in a lawsuit that arose from the incident.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

For example, if an importer buys five T-shirts, they pay three euros.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

When a young man buys a five-dollar bouquet, is it for his sweetheart, a sick friend, his mother?

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

Bordenave-Jenkins bought her first new car one day before the shooting, her mother said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

What you bought and where you bought it from was a statement about who you were and who you could be.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Caroline Sabatt bought a Boston-area plumbing business in 2025 and merged it with a smaller one her husband Nat had started.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Tilray bought Brewdog's brand, intellectual property, UK breweries and 11 bars.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

“Oh, wait, you have zero dollars saved up. Because three weeks ago, you bought a new video game. The week after that, you spent all your money on candy.”

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

“They’re buying the stories they have the highest conviction in.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Individual investors are cooling on Magnificent Seven tech stocks and instead buying other stocks they think will benefit from the AI build-out.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

They were selling the three-bedroom terrace they'd renovated and buying her parents' four-bedroom detached house in the countryside.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

While homeownership has long been held up as a key milestone in American life, buying a dwelling doesn’t necessarily mean that a household has found financial well-being.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

“This is just stuff about buying your house,” Jonah said, leafing quickly through the papers.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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