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Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal

But McGuire had kept tabs on Crockett, and snapped Dickey right up.

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

For months, investors snapped up bullion and precious-metals funds as protection against a potential weakening of the U.S. dollar, as well as uncertainty around the outlook for richly valued tech stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal