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"Human love is a luxury -- if you aren't born with it, it's even harder to acquire later," a user from Jiangxi province wrote.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Last week, a still-unconfirmed report in Puck stated that Netflix is entering initial talks to acquire Letterboxd, the film-logging and review platform beloved by hardcore and casual cinephiles alike.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

This is when investors borrow yen to acquire dollars, then use those dollars to invest in U.S. assets.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

The Dodgers have the prospects and the money to acquire Skubal, should the Tigers trade him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

In this way she was able to acquire a good portion of her supplies for free.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

The research expands on decades of work exploring how the brain acquires new abilities.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

Individuals can’t request debt relief because the nonprofit acquires bundled debt for thousands of people at once.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

But in reproducing the fragmentary nature of Susanna Kaysen’s memoir, which became a movie starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, the musical never acquires dramatic momentum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

And yet invisibility makes that power easier to expand because citizens stop feeling the intrusion even while the state acquires increasingly intimate access to ordinary life.

From Slate ● May 20, 2026

When a culture grows big enough, it acquires an elite, which needs to monitor things it considers important: money, stored goods, births and deaths, the progression of time.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The firm was acquired by First Eagle Investments in April and continues to operate under its own management as a subsidiary of First Eagle.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

This explains why wealth taxes have acquired a renewed popularity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Last year Cadiz reported that nearly 90% of its revenue stemmed from the sale of water filtration equipment manufactured by ATEC, a Hollister firm it acquired in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

SpaceX earlier this year acquired Musk's AI start-up xAI, recently renamed SpaceXAI, external and best known for the controversial chatbot Grok, and also started leasing data centre capacity to other tech companies.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Angeline had acquired, from Fishtail, some corn with red flecks in it and Mama put these seeds into the ground with a special blessing, curious to see what their growth would bring.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

The reports also said Paris had considered acquiring the software.

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

“Landmaxxing”—the quest to optimize one’s land holdings by acquiring more acreage—drove the luxury market during the first part of the year, according to a new midyear report from Coldwell Banker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Seems to me I was just reading about how the acquiring of players James asked for was considered a factor in the team’s inability to put together a cohesive unit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

Despite growing access to financial information, Gen Z-ers are still in the early stages of acquiring financial knowledge.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

He had met her several years earlier during a stay in Boston and had considered acquiring her even then, but the distance was too great, the timing awkward.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson