purchase
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Such strategies can involve the purchase and sale of large quantities of stock over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The bottom line is that for $270 to purchase a single ticket and another $40 for parking this will be the last game I attend at Dodger Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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
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
But Valley and Seven were able to find purchase and avoid being thrown in.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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There were more than 550 purchases and more than 450 sales revealed in the latest filing released Saturday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
China’s oil purchases remain at their lowest level in nearly a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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
Such measures could include increased bond purchases beyond the scale announced the day before.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 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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Evidence indicates many of the purchased books are sent to facilities where they are sliced up, scanned and destroyed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
He purchased a rare first-edition copy of the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
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
Velia and Delia purchased piping hot ears of corn on a stick, wrapped in their own leaves and enveloped in newspapers to keep them warm.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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However, surveys of purchasing managers recorded a pickup in activity in the eurozone, Japan and India during August, suggesting the global economy might avoid a further modest slowdown in the third quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Haber said he believes the loss of tax revenue from fewer people purchasing pricey homes in New York would offset the effects of the pied-à-terre tax.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
On Feb. 26, 2026, someone requested a refund after purchasing $500 tickets to a Demon Hunter show in Albany, N.Y., believing it was for a KPop Demon Hunters concert, according to the suit.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
Crowned queen a year after purchasing the 1546 Amati violins, she introduced to the French court what amounted to a complete lifestyle after the Italian fashion.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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