purchase
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SpaceX has also scored wins at the Federal Communications Commission, which in May approved the company’s plan to purchase spectrum rights to connect mobile phones with satellites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
New York has a transit-rich environment, making it an attractive place for companies to purchase new office space and workers to live in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Using half your portfolio to purchase a second home might be too risky.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Micron trades lower while Marvell surges after the company issues a warrant to Google to purchase up to 59 million shares of the chip company.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
They made a game of it—each only had five minutes to make an expensive purchase.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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Such measures could include increased bond purchases beyond the scale announced the day before.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The debt struggles of Evergrande and industry peers including Country Garden, Vanke and Kaisa have had a severe impact on consumer confidence, dissuading many would-be homebuyers from making purchases.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
That could cause people to delay major purchases and cut back on other forms of discretionary spending — potentially a problem for an economy that is driven in large part by consumption.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
With so much unknown about availability and pricing in 2027, many have chosen to hold off on any Olympic purchases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Sure enough, the people who had thought the most before buying were the most satisfied, and those who had made impulse purchases more often regretted their decision.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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But the government rejects the criticism, arguing that it has invested in ground-based resources, which it says are more effective, and purchased helicopters for water-bombing operations, with deliveries of the aircraft under way.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
In interviews, she has been unsparing about what she sees as coming next in American media consolidation, warning that a CNN controlled by David Ellison — who purchased Paramount and CBS — would be “tragic.”
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Personally, Lynch loved modern architecture, and experienced love at first sight with the home he purchased in the mid-’80s in the Hollywood Hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Four months later, having purchased a small number of animals locally to rear for meat, Fiona's fledgling farm in Creetown recorded the first ever case of bluetongue in Scotland.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
James, with his hands in his pockets, seemed much more reserved than the day we’d purchased his typewriter.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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S&P Global said its purchasing managers’ index for the eurozone—which measures activity in the services and manufacturing sectors—rose to 52.1 in August from 52.0 in July to reach its highest level in nine months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But investor appetite in lending the US government money through buying bonds is "diminishing", Swanson warns, creating a "vicious" cycle, requiring the government to offer ever higher returns to keep investors purchasing its debt.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Now I’m down to the wire on either purchasing a replacement or paying capital-gains tax and depreciation recapture.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Delaware Life has started a remediation plan to restructure some of the loans, review others and address its “control deficiencies,” including through TWG purchasing some of the loans, according to ratings outfit S&P Global.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The day he learned that he was terminally ill was the day he lost interest in his purchasing power.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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