snap up

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But he has gotten lucky a couple of times, he said, such as when he snapped up shares of shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries in June.

From The Wall Street Journal

And there is no guarantee the move will escape regulatory scrutiny, especially because other tech giants have recently been deploying the same playbook to snap up AI talent.

From The Wall Street Journal

Firms are snapping up smaller competitors in a bid to capture a piece of Americans’ growing wealth.

From The Wall Street Journal

Companies are snapping up Vernon properties and upgrading them, adding advanced cooling systems to old office buildings and filling a shuttered slaughterhouse that once housed hogs, with advanced chips.

From Los Angeles Times

So they are snapping up smaller firms, creating growing national competitors along the way.

From The Wall Street Journal