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Which city did President Jefferson hope to acquire before making the Louisiana Purchase?

purchase

[pur-chuhs] / ˈpɜr tΚƒΙ™s /
NOUN
possession obtained with money
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“At that point, after having invested significant time, I decided to proceed with the purchase and pay the processing fee in addition to the ticket prices.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Just after the transaction goes through, Stripe charges the purchase amount to the consumer’s actual card, which effectively pays off the virtual card.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

The figure reflects the average amount of processing fees charged to each person for their first purchase during the class period.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Finding out he was eligible for $2,000 through his company prompted the couple to move forward with their home purchase.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

Using extreme caution, they only bought earphones from storeowners whom they trusted not to report the purchase to the Gestapo.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Stripe is embracing agentic purchasing and using tokens and virtual cards, while JPMorgan Chase is blocking some agentic purchases and is skeptical of the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

United said there were concerns that outside agents could expose customers’ sensitive information, make unintended purchases or fail to meet certain government requirements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Signs of the economy’s strength are evident in robust spending on dining out and traveling — the sort of discretionary purchases that Americans tend to sacrifice when times are tough.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

“The methods expanded accordingly, from conventional espionage and technology purchases to cyber operations, academic collaborations, talent recruitment, overseas investments, and systematic exploitation of publicly available research,” Hannas said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

The boys suspected their parents would not be enthusiastic about their paleontology purchases.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

The H200 chips were purchased for the management school of NPU, which is one of China's "Seven Sons of National Defence" universities that conduct defence-related research and maintain links with the country's military.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

Although the sixpence had an individual price tag of £8, the entire album was subsequently purchased as a single lot rather than the coin being bought separately.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

OpenAI this week purchased Odessia, a startup developing artificial intelligence for booking travel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Salah Fayed was one of three Fayed brothers who purchased Harrods, the luxury Knightsbridge department store, in 1985.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

After calling in sick, he hopped into his newly purchased car and drove off to meet his friend Bill Wernecke, a fervent Nazi supporter and an expert draft dodger.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

It is a decent store of value over extremely long periods; its purchasing power has held more or less steady since ancient Roman times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

It is not a situation Sir Jim Ratcliffe can have expected to find himself in again, less than three years after purchasing a minority stake in United.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

It also means more years in which inflation can erode purchasing power.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

“Our combined purchasing levels will give us economies of scale by consolidating purchasing decisions into one centralized group,” the executives said in their letter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Since the buyer couldn’t know whose corn they were purchasing, the Chicago Board of Trade made up a category called number 2 field corn.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan


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