buy
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They’ve just figured out they don’t have to buy them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
U.S. stocks rose after the government said it would buy back more longer-dated bonds, easing pressure on a market that had pushed borrowing costs to their highest levels in nearly two decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
He raised his price target for ServiceNow to $150 from $130 and reiterated his buy rating.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Jefferies maintains its 2026 gross margin guidance at close to 40% and initiates coverage of Hesai with a buy rating and target price of 29.30 Hong Kong dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
It was his ninth birthday, and she’d found enough change to buy him a chocolate–peanut butter cupcake with sprinkles.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Treasury that it will raise the rate at which it buys back long-term Treasury bonds for the next few months.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Under sale-leasebacks, LCN buys properties from other companies and rents it right back to them, with the tenant paying taxes and other expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
I sure hope he buys a book about single parenting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Abbott’s call for a ‘pause’ could be for one day – and no one buys it,” she said in a statement this week.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
She buys me four new sets of clothes.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
In 2023, L3Harris bought Aerojet Rocketdyne for about $4.7 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Fresh off closing its $6.8 billion deal for home builder Taylor Morrison, Berkshire Hathaway bought a new, albeit small, stake in D.R.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Vogel bought an apartment for her daughter when she was 16, Panettiere recalled, and the whole family lived in it.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
The first time Alabama Shakes came to Los Angeles, Brittany Howard bought a longboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
“This one’s yours, buddy. I bought it to replace the one you lost in the lake. We lost. I lost,” Owen said, covering the last bit with a fake cough.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
One young consumer interviewed by Shanxi Evening News said he rented a DJI Pocket 3 while waiting to see whether the company’s next model would be worth buying.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Even if the Treasury doesn’t end up buying that many more bonds, the move sends a message that the government could always do more to keep yields in check, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
There is an argument buying from Premier League clubs costs more because they are all relatively rich.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
A China Youth Daily survey released this year found that 77.3% of 1,334 young respondents had rented something instead of buying it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
But when she’d told the matchmaker there wasn’t any hurry, I’d thought that she wanted to help me, that she was buying time so she could change Ba’s mind.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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