buy
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His worries included the team he assembled to buy the Orioles and the players he inherited on the field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
As John Bogle said, “Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
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From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Second Hand September is Oxfam's annual campaign encouraging people to buy second-hand.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The first two times it was Dad that needed me: once to help him hang cabinets, the other to help him buy some tools.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
When this frustration peaks, the guy gives in and buys some Bitcoin of his own.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Marmoush will cost £60m once his loan becomes permanent but Spurs need their big-money buys to prove their worth and perform sooner rather than later.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Hoarding only buys time, and it adds upward pressure to prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Take a 30-year-old who buys a home for $405,400 — around the median price in the U.S. — using a 30-year mortgage.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
From the general store, Ma buys cloth to stitch an extra set of pants and shirts for Father and me.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“I’m mad at me because I bought the dream they sold me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Riley bought the medicine as "people get freshers flu or colds all the time in the first year"
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
So, we bought his index funds that promised just that.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
I bought a ticket to Sedona, Arizona, to meet Cramer in person.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Father bought Stetsons and bandannas to protect us from the sun.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
But who could resist the ecstatic momentum of her ad hoc band members buying into her grassroots dream?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Smaller businesses like his, he said, were now struggling to compete with larger firms with "bigger buying power on their fuel".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
I’ve tried to reciprocate in smaller ways — buying dinner, bringing wine when we’re staying somewhere, picking up other expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
This means more than the usual press release about buying more soybeans and Boeing planes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
To Steve Eisman at FrontPoint Partners, the market seemed mainly stupid or delusional: A financial culture that had experienced so many tiny panics followed by robust booms saw any sell-off as merely another buying opportunity.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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