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purchase

[pur-chuhs] / ˈpɜr tΚƒΙ™s /
NOUN
possession obtained with money
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Antonyms
WEAK




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He visited three times — once on business — in the months leading up to his family trust’s July 2021 purchase of a plot in the ski town of Eden.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

"Five years ago, an idea was born to hold a garage sale of sorts, and to let people just come in and purchase these items" in person, he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

SpaceX plans to purchase Grain Management’s 800 MHz spectrum portfolio in a move to bolster its mobile ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

News of the singer’s splashy purchase comes months after he and Leonard got married in Spain in late 2025.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The bundle of letters relating to the purchase of the house were with the typescript.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

That would be double the $2 billion acquisition deal announced by Manus and Meta in December -- one of the biggest purchases in the Facebook owner's history.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

This year, peptide purchases in crypto have surpassed $10 million a month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

According to the firm, before 2025, the gray-market peptide ecosystem was a niche and underground, averaging just $200,000 in monthly purchases done using cryptocurrencies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

In total, the federal government has now spent nearly $3.2 billion on detention facility purchases, the majority of them in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

I rolled down my window and said, “Didn’t Josephine the banker tell us not to make any purchases for six months?”

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

Paxton also traveled with the detail twice to Broken Bow, Oklahoma, where he purchased a $1.5 million vacation lodge in 2022.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

That happened twice after Aviva was purchased by Athene, an insurer backed by private-asset giant Apollo Global Management.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

He looked up data related to more than 60 vehicles listed online for sale, and a family member of his later purchased one of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Peden told the inquest he had purchased the bike online for £900 and it was in "perfect working order", apart from an incident where he lost the key on a fairground ride.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Barker and DeDiego, wearing black delivery uniforms purchased the day before, and the wigs and glasses issued to Hunt and Liddy, got out and entered the building through the unlocked back door.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Meanwhile, consumer-facing companies have been squeezed as higher borrowing costs and sticky inflation erode household purchasing power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

But on social media, influencers and doomsday "preppers" are pushing the necessity of purchasing a $300 kit claimed to help people avoid emergency room visits.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

In purchasing power parity terms, which accounts for goods and services typically costing less in poorer countries, Chinese per capita GDP of about $29,500 was 2.5 times India’s $12,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

According to the court filing, part of the scam included hiring an interior designer and purchasing $40,000 worth of kitchen appliances for one property.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Now Ian faced me full on, studying me as though I were a horse he was considering purchasing.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben




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