acquisitive
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But Big Pharma has been acquisitive lately, as it seeks to stock its pipeline with developmental drugs aimed at growing market categories.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 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
European engineers and entrepreneurs since the dot-com boom of the 1990s have flocked to the U.S. for its acquisitive consumers, bountiful funding and love of innovation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
By confronting the emptiness of consumerism, the Sex Pistols encourage listeners to get beyond object-oriented, acquisitive pursuits.
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2024
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
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