buy
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That is more than triple the number of cars Chinese consumers are expected to buy this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Investors appeared willing on Tuesday to buy the turnaround story.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
“I’ve never given anybody permission to buy from an auction,” she said previously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Gatt added: "I'm very, very anxious because, it's my right, and I worked so hard to buy this apartment and it's out of my control."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
“Pa said he’d buy me a ticket to Colorado if I could find Seven Wonders here,” I explained.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
But with more money being spent on ad buys than ever before, it’s worth asking: do they make any difference?
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
“If a rescue group buys dogs and needs to place them, I’ll take them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The company buys Nvidia chips, puts them in data centers and rents that computing power by the hour.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Turkish protesters have linked the headscarf rules to Azerbaijan's close ties with Israel, which sells weapons to Baku and buys Azerbaijani oil.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
No. She’s thinking, My family needs food and this guy has Corn Flakes, and she buys the Corn Flakes.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
Their decision to part ways with the home comes just one year after they bought it back from tennis superstar Naomi Osaka for $7.9 million—three years after selling the property to her.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Engineers from his companies were seconded over to X, formerly Twitter, after Musk bought the social media platform in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Households earning less than £110,000 would qualify, while the threshold would be £140,000 for homes bought in London.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Soglayev alleges he bought Russian diesel from a small firm in Dubai called Serene Resources in late 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Soldiers frequently visited our store, for they were getting good wages and watches were among the first things they bought.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
“Everyone is on their phone all the time,” she lamented Sunday morning at the bustling Aligre outdoor produce market, where neighbors were, just like before the riots, buying fruit, vegetables, meat and fish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
"There's such a huge pressure on parents to be buying new costumes every year," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Banks’ hedging activities can involve buying credit-default swaps or selling off portions of loans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
But if extinction is humanity’s fate, not buying it won’t save you.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Once they made up their mind to purchase some porcelain, they could often be drawn into buying a teak chair or some other expensive piece of furniture.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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