procuring

Example Sentences

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Procuring accurate and timely valuations for private investments may prove more difficult.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Procuring a set of these dice is a reliable way to get banned from family game night.

From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2023

Over the last decade, activists and organizations like those behind "Procuring Food Justice" have strategically identified public procurement as an actionable pathway for wresting back corporate control of food production.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2023

Procuring microchips and drones from China and striking oil deals with Saudi Arabia and other customers, have softened the blow of the Western measures.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

Procuring an axe from the deck house he cut the mast free; then, rigging some tackle, he worked with the stick until at last he had dumped it over the stern into the sea.

From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee