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
New York has a transit-rich environment, making it an attractive place for companies to purchase new office space and workers to live in.
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
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
Another surge of profound relief overtook Koffi as her bandaged hands finally found purchase on the ledge, a flat stone surface just wide enough for her to heave onto and perch like a bird.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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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
It found purchases of essentials excluding fuel grew for the period, while cardholder spending on discretionary goods recovered after a weak year and a half.
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
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 captain staggered his purchases, rather than find himself with cargo of singular culture and disposition.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
He purchased a rare first-edition copy of the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
Because the Osage had purchased their land, it was harder for the government to impose its policy of allotment.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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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
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
In other words, AFT is advertising the purchasing power it hopes to mobilize against the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
While the day of waiting was tediously slow, the line to enter the circus moves remarkably fast, and soon Bailey is standing at the ticket booth, purchasing a single admission.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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