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Which city did President Jefferson hope to acquire before making the Louisiana Purchase?

purchase

[pur-chuhs] / ˈpɜr tΚƒΙ™s /
NOUN
possession obtained with money
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Ryanair, which is Europe's biggest airline by passenger numbers and flies mainly across the continent, said the cost of fuel not subject to advance purchase agreements had soared owing to the US-Iran war.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

They continued to a local winery, to talk about oil and other business deals - the planned Hungarian purchase of Serbia's Nis oil refinery.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Decorate your own sugar skull, grab a bite to eat at the food trucks, purchase something from the mercado, pay a visit to the community altar, or go see some live entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

Her 21-year-old son is getting married soon, and Allen and her husband plan to give him cash toward the purchase of a house.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

“So I’m not wearing the same dress every day. My mother made this dress for me. I can’t afford to purchase another since I’m working to help my family.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Oracle has rushed to line up financing to pay for its data center buildout and chip purchases, raising billions this year by selling stock and debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Slow down your purchases: is what you are buying essential or can you postpone it?

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Intel’s weak forecast reflected how memory-chip prices are hurting demand for laptops, all while information-technology teams have to balance spending on AI tools against hardware purchases.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Some of the purchases were also placed during times when school was not in session, he added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

She added her purchases to ours and paid for it all.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

In fact, Batista purchased a home in Daytona Beach and lived there for several years following his initial ouster in the mid-1940s.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

He would later record the events in a diary, writing: "We all assembled... replete with balloons, one pole-full of which I was carrying while dressed as Father Christmas - a plastic suit purchased at Woolworths."

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

She purchased the Chelsea unit in 2021 for $2.75 million, according to property records.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Alphatec slashes its full-year outlook as fewer surgeons have purchased its add-on bone-graft products used for spinal fusion.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mother had recently purchased a trial version of AOL.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The official manufacturing purchasing managers index fell to 49.3 in October, down from 50.1 in September, said the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Binance is purchasing the remaining $1.3 billion of cryptocurrency through market channels, the spokesman said, adding this step could take longer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

How much of your excess cash you put in cash or bonds versus the stock market depends on your risk tolerance and purchasing power.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

As Anna Holmes recently pointed out in her blistering New Yorker essay, more than half of millennials have had parental help purchasing their home.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Most of the older ones, members of the purchasing committees, were in town doing the marketing.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey


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