acquirements

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At $29.8 billion, the CBP/ICE portion of the DHS budget he praised was not just the highest ever but a $3 billion jump above 2022, including $2.7 billion for "new acquirements in our southwestern border."

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2023

Who, Taney asked, do we think we are, to question what the Founders—men “high in literary acquirements, high in their sense of honor”—intended?

From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2015

You need not trouble to write, as I no longer attach the slightest weight to anything you may say about your own acquirements & exploits.

From Time Magazine Archive

The affection of the whole family, the warm attachment of Miss Campbell in particular, was the more honourable to each party from the circumstance of Jane’s decided superiority both in beauty and acquirements.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

The human child is peculiarly susceptible, as regards mental and moral acquirements, to the nature of his surroundings.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.