purchase
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By agreeing to the arrangement, users were signed up for a scheme where they agreed to purchase a certain number of products over a specific amount of time at full price.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
SpaceX has also scored wins at the Federal Communications Commission, which in May approved the company’s plan to purchase spectrum rights to connect mobile phones with satellites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Fans who did not get a time slot to buy 2028 Olympics could still get opportunities to purchase tickets in 2027.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Once you purchase a fire extinguisher for your vehicle, placement is also very important.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Once they made up their mind to purchase some porcelain, they could often be drawn into buying a teak chair or some other expensive piece of furniture.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Columbia House drew further claims of bad business by allegedly refusing to acknowledge payments, discounting items so that users’ purchases fell just below the agreed-upon threshold and being a notoriously difficult subscription to terminate.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
The purchases are expected to provide support to the domestic bond market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Such measures could include increased bond purchases beyond the scale announced the day before.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
That could cause people to delay major purchases and cut back on other forms of discretionary spending — potentially a problem for an economy that is driven in large part by consumption.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
We packed our purchases on the porch and realized, together in the same instant, with joy and amazement, that Mary Ellen was no longer part of our retinue.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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Two years later, the tribe and a business partner purchased Red Cedar Gathering Co., taking ownership of the infrastructure needed to move their gas to market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
When Guggenheim purchased the team in 2012, it outbid billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, who now owns the New York Mets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
But the government rejects the criticism, arguing that it has invested in ground-based resources, which it says are more effective, and purchased helicopters for water-bombing operations, with deliveries of the aircraft under way.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
In interviews, she has been unsparing about what she sees as coming next in American media consolidation, warning that a CNN controlled by David Ellison — who purchased Paramount and CBS — would be “tragic.”
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
After Leonardo’s death, the Mona Lisa is inherited by a longtime assistant and then purchased by Francis.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Thrive Enternal’s first entry into sports was purchasing a noncontrolling stake in the San Francisco Giants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
But investor appetite in lending the US government money through buying bonds is "diminishing", Swanson warns, creating a "vicious" cycle, requiring the government to offer ever higher returns to keep investors purchasing its debt.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
In other words, AFT is advertising the purchasing power it hopes to mobilize against the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Now I’m down to the wire on either purchasing a replacement or paying capital-gains tax and depreciation recapture.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
“They’re giving me my own lab. Meanwhile, don’t tell them, but I’m purchasing mass quantities of research supplies: sugar, gelatin, cornstarch and...jelly bean molds!”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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Material World: Shopping Lingo
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 1
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