acquisitive

Example Sentences

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Billionaire businessman Brad Jacobs has built QXO into a leading building-materials firm with more than $2 billion in quarterly sales, using the same acquisitive approach he applied to enterprises in waste management and logistics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Deputy Chief Constable Jayne Meir, the NPCC's first lead for freight crime, said a new team at Opal - a police intelligence unit tackling organised acquisitive crime - would start targeting the issue next year.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025

By confronting the emptiness of consumerism, the Sex Pistols encourage listeners to get beyond object-oriented, acquisitive pursuits.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2024

Big Oil replaces Big Tech at the top of Friday's corporate diary, with recently acquisitive Exxon Mobil and Chevron due to report.

From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2023

His manner is mild, his hands large, with thick fingers and acquisitive thumbs, his blue eyes uncommunicative, falsely innocuous.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood