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purchase

[pur-chuhs] / ˈpɜr tʃəs /
NOUN
possession obtained with money
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




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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

How Kushner and Iger plan to finance the purchase of the Lakers has yet to be determined.

From Los Angeles Times 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

It’s important to purchase an extinguisher that is both large enough and rated for the types of fires you may experience on the road.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

Fischer learned when the new copies would arrive each month, and within a day or two of their appearance he’d be at the Four Continents to purchase the latest edition.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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 debt struggles of Evergrande and industry peers including Country Garden, Vanke and Kaisa have had a severe impact on consumer confidence, dissuading many would-be homebuyers from making purchases.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

With so much unknown about availability and pricing in 2027, many have chosen to hold off on any Olympic purchases.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

The retailer has added more snacks and changed its presentation as it tries to become a destination for food purchases.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Ms. Hussey left the store with her purchases.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

He has purchased the building as part of a group of locals, who estimate it will need £5m of investment as they continue to look for partnerships.

From BBC Aug. 21, 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 struggling as a public company, Blue Apron was purchased by food-delivery startup Wonder in 2023 for around $103 million, far below its IPO value of $1.9 billion in 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The man in the fedora hat purchased four newspapers, which he handed to the others.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

With first-come, first-serve purchasing, the ticketing platform will remain open continuously through the Games.

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

On Feb. 26, 2026, someone requested a refund after purchasing $500 tickets to a Demon Hunter show in Albany, N.Y., believing it was for a KPop Demon Hunters concert, according to the suit.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

The school opted for a middle ground, purchasing 200 graphing calculators from French company NumWorks for its ninth-grade classes, with plans to create a schoolwide rollout over three years.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 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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