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
In quarterly earnings published this month, Apollo said it gained $65 billion in fee-paying assets to manage in the second quarter thanks to Athora’s purchase of PIC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“If I dont get it refunded I will not be able to purchase tickets to the actual ‘K pop demon hunters show,’” the email read.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
“Every man and woman in the United States will be asked to purchase war savings stamps,” I set the paper down.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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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
On the bond front, the BOJ is scheduled to make outright purchases of three sectors of Japan’s government debt on Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Heather sighs and smiles dreamily at Vivi as we load our purchases into the trunk of Heather’s Prius.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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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
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
The 605 acres were purchased by the National Park Service in 1981.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
It had originally been purchased by a fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge—its binding bears the college badge.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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With first-come, first-serve purchasing, the ticketing platform will remain open continuously through the Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
U.S. economic data due Friday include the flash manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ indexes for August, released at 9:45 a.m.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Haber said he believes the loss of tax revenue from fewer people purchasing pricey homes in New York would offset the effects of the pied-à-terre tax.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Thrive Enternal’s first entry into sports was purchasing a noncontrolling stake in the San Francisco Giants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
My parents were typical Levittown home buyers in that they came from nothing, had built no financial resources of their own, and in no previous era could have even dreamed of purchasing their own home.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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