purchase
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Investors have been excited recently about Marvell’s recently expanded partnership with Google, through which the technology giant got a warrant to purchase Marvell shares and the companies agreed to work together on Google’s custom-chip program.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Wait 48 hours or longer before you purchase something.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The purchase price includes about $4.4 billion in cash, $2 billion in newly issued equity, and the assumption of $575 million of First Eagle notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
TWG Global — the holding company of Dodgers owner Mark Walter — rejected allegations of financial impropriety in the purchase and operation of the Dodgers and reiterated the team is not for sale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Between the purchase of the loans and the sale of the bonds made up of those loans, his group was exposed to falling prices.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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A further report that the Treasury could fund purchases of longer-term Treasury debt from its own account, rather than only through the sale of bills, would add to its capacity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Countries drew on abundant energy reserves to replace missing shipments and quickly diversified their purchases to new suppliers, including the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Chinese hyperscalers’ spending was likely mostly related to domestic GPU procurement as well as global and domestic memory-chip purchases, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Research last year from Vanquis, a challenger bank, found Gen Z shoppers make more impulse purchases than any other age group, external, closely followed by millennials.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
He added some Italian junk food to the basket, just to sort of disguise his more suspicious purchases, then dumped his stuff at the register.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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Soon-Shiong, a biotech billionaire and owner of The Times, said through his attorney that he is not interested in selling his stake, which he purchased from Magic Johnson in 2010 for an undisclosed amount.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
According to the sanctuary, the purchased plot of land had historically been used for agriculture and will enable it to rescue more goats and double its on-site capacity.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Separately, Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai and CEO Eddie Wu purchased around HK$202 million worth, according to regulatory filings lodged in Hong Kong.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
At the meeting, Jordan recounted experiments with Flock cameras he purchased legally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Before we left Varanasi, Sass purchased a cheap white cotton sari for me.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
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A retiree today can generate more income from the same balance in conservative, interest-bearing investments than at any point since the financial crisis, although inflation reduces some of that increased purchasing power.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Since 2008, the authority has spent about $15 billion purchasing thousands of land parcels and building giant overpasses, rail beds, walls and other concrete structures that now loom over California’s Central Valley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Just imagine if the American forces weren't in Kuwait," she told AFP, while purchasing strawberry pastries for her children at Dunkin' -- the US donut franchise that remains popular across the Gulf.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 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
They provided against Lent by purchasing dates, and green ginger of almonds, and herrings at 4s. 6d. the borse-load.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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