buy up
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GameStop rose to prominence as a "meme stock", which sees retail investors buy up shares in unloved companies that professional investors have bet against, causing the share price to rise and fall sharply.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
More recently, struggling radio giant iHeartMedia Inc. gained FCC approval for foreign owners to buy up to 100% of the company’s stock.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
This created an opportunity for investors to buy up those stocks at a discount, while their fundamentals remained strong.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 19, 2026
Some investment firms are separately investing hundreds of millions of dollars to buy up companies in industries such as accounting and customer service so they can automate them with AI.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
“If there was a market for rocks and snakes,” I told Mr. Whiskers, “I could buy up the whole of Dawson County.”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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