purchase
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The most expensive purchase, she calculates, were the windows at £30,000, while one of the cheapest measures was making the whole house airtight, which cost £5,000.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
By agreeing to the arrangement, users were signed up for a scheme where they agreed to purchase a certain number of products over a specific amount of time at full price.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
It also said it is completing the purchase of drilling rigs for the new project, which would initially involve two blocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Fans who did not get a time slot to buy 2028 Olympics could still get opportunities to purchase tickets in 2027.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Nigro gave or loaned him books, and Regina permitted him to purchase a book now and then, whenever she had some spare cash.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The purchases are expected to provide support to the domestic bond market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Columbia House drew further claims of bad business by allegedly refusing to acknowledge payments, discounting items so that users’ purchases fell just below the agreed-upon threshold and being a notoriously difficult subscription to terminate.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
The debt struggles of Evergrande and industry peers including Country Garden, Vanke and Kaisa have had a severe impact on consumer confidence, dissuading many would-be homebuyers from making purchases.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The money behind AI hardware purchases is increasingly borrowed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
They’d spent a small fortune on in-app purchases: skins and maps in Minecraft, V-Bucks in Fortnite, unlimited lives and gems in a new multiplayer world-building game.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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He has purchased the building as part of a group of locals, who estimate it will need £5m of investment as they continue to look for partnerships.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Todd Boehly purchased a minority stake in the Lakers in 2021, but it’s unclear whether all his shares folded into business partner Walter’s majority stake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
But the government rejects the criticism, arguing that it has invested in ground-based resources, which it says are more effective, and purchased helicopters for water-bombing operations, with deliveries of the aircraft under way.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
In interviews, she has been unsparing about what she sees as coming next in American media consolidation, warning that a CNN controlled by David Ellison — who purchased Paramount and CBS — would be “tragic.”
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Eventually, upon Lawson’s death, the score sheet was purchased by a collector, sold again, and for the last number of years it has rested with yet another collector.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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With first-come, first-serve purchasing, the ticketing platform will remain open continuously through the Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
U.S. economic data due Friday include the flash manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ indexes for August, released at 9:45 a.m.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
But investor appetite in lending the US government money through buying bonds is "diminishing", Swanson warns, creating a "vicious" cycle, requiring the government to offer ever higher returns to keep investors purchasing its debt.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
In other words, AFT is advertising the purchasing power it hopes to mobilize against the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
One purchasing committee found a large department store which gave us wholesale rates on everything from underwear to baseball gloves.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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