acquire
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Bouygues Telecom, Orange and Free-iliad Group said late Saturday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding with Drahi’s Altice France to acquire SFR, the country’s second-largest telecom operator.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
European brokers and aircraft-management firms often acquire Bombardier and Gulfstream jets by purchasing them secondhand from other companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
At the end of April, Brussels entered exclusive negotiations with French utility Engie for Belgium to acquire its nuclear reactors, including its workforces and liabilities inside the country.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The Five Eyes bulletin warns China's spies "seek to acquire privileged military, political and economic intelligence that can provide China with a strategic and tactical advantage".
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
A herd animal such as man would acquire a higher survival factor through this; an owl or a cobra would be destroyed.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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