purchases
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Soaring grocery bills have left Japanese households less room to spend on other purchases, from dining out to clothing, even as these businesses grapple with rising labour and material costs of their own.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Officials this week reactivated liquidity-injection tools aimed at encouraging share purchases while boosting the trading volume of state-backed investment funds, according to local media reports.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
The festival is considered an auspicious time to make new purchases, which many believe bring prosperity and good fortune.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
While you were putting all that money aside for retirement, surely there were purchases that you had to delay making in order to save, or dinners out that you had to skip.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The store owned a bicycle which I used in delivering purchases.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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