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
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
That changed with Stripe’s purchase of OpenRouter, a company with 90 employees that helps developers cut costs by steering their requests to a variety of AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Paramount was struggling to remain solvent prior to the Ellison family’s purchase of the media company last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Herold rode into the nearby town of Bowling Green with the Confederates to purchase, of all things, a new pair of shoes.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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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
Such measures could include increased bond purchases beyond the scale announced the day before.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The money behind AI hardware purchases is increasingly borrowed.
From MarketWatch ● 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
Not bothering to wait for an answer, I flipped open the pamphlet Mr. Hanson had tucked in with my purchases.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Divine is backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who had a senior role at the social media platform when it purchased the Vine in 2012.
From BBC ● 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 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
That evening, Mom and Dad gave me my Christmas present: a pair of turquoise and silver earrings they had purchased from a Navajo woman.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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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
However, surveys of purchasing managers recorded a pickup in activity in the eurozone, Japan and India during August, suggesting the global economy might avoid a further modest slowdown in the third quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
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
Lacey emerged from Ben’s shoulder still looking sad and distracted, but she tried to smile as Radar and Ben swapped tales of corsage purchasing.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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