acquired
Example Sentences
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Musk acquired the social media platform in late October 2022 and later renamed it X.
From Barron's
The motion seeks a temporary order to prevent Nexstar from moving ahead with integrating or commingling the assets and operations it acquired from Tegna.
CBS News lost about 100 employees in October as part of a massive round of cuts enacted at Paramount after the company was acquired by Skydance Media.
From Los Angeles Times
The 18th-century French noble was the guy who got evolution wrong, believing that characteristics acquired during an organism’s life could be passed down directly to its descendants.
He started there in 1982 without realizing it had been acquired the year before by Goldman, which had rejected his job application.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
