purchase
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After weighing all of these factors, I decided to plunge forward, and began to assemble a team that would help me get to a purchase agreement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Roblox is a highly customizable gaming platform where users can create their own games and related content, and then share them for others to play and even purchase.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
His largest purchase was a £124,500 motorhome which he kitted out with luxury extras and top-of-the-range toiletries.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
A former OpenAI employee who sold shares says his biggest-ticket purchase was a new electric vehicle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
It didn’t seem fair to ask me to purchase my own work clothes when uniforms were provided for the other operators.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Roblox is forecasting a 14 percent to 18 percent drop in overall purchases made by players in the current quarter, and its share price has lost more than two-thirds of its value since its high.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
She can then control the intervals and make sure she has cash for large purchases if she wants it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
On Wednesday, the average price was 97.05p per litre, according to the comparison website boilerjuice.com, external, which measures the cost for purchases of 1,000 litres.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Around 30% of home purchases in the San Francisco metro area were all-cash between April and June, according to Redfin, the digital real-estate brokerage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
He charged everything and was well pleased with his purchases.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
The city purchased the 20-acre tract of land over 10 years ago and originally planned to build government facilities there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Over the years, many free African-Americans saved their hard-won earnings and purchased property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
New data shows nearly one in five properties in St Andrews were registered to an address outside of Scotland when purchased, including 164 buyers from the United States alone.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
He may also present the Irish Open winner with the trophy on Sunday evening amid a significantly enhanced security presence at the property he purchased in 2014.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Because the Osage had purchased their land, it was harder for the government to impose its policy of allotment.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
A report by the Deutsche Bank Research Institute published in July found that the yen’s purchasing power had halved since 2012, making Japan an outlier in terms of the cheapness of its currency.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The rial has plunged to record lows, reaching around 2.2 million to the US dollar in recent days, while year-on-year inflation hit 89 percent for the Iranian month ending August 22, sharply eroding purchasing power.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index for services providers was 55.4 in August compared with 54.1 in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Eastern, and the Institute of Supply Management’s services purchasing managers’ index for August at 10 a.m.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
My parents were typical Levittown home buyers in that they came from nothing, had built no financial resources of their own, and in no previous era could have even dreamed of purchasing their own home.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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Material World: Shopping Lingo
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 1
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