purchase
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The ur gut® supplement is already available for purchase.
From Science Daily β Nov. 14, 2026
The company said in posts on X on Friday that “select customers are now being invited to purchase Cybercab for personal use” at an estimated purchase price of $29,990.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 14, 2026
The White House says the US Department of Defense acquired a 30 percent equity stake in NABEP, authorizing it to purchase 20 percent of its oil at production cost.
From Barron's β Nov. 14, 2026
Georgia from Staffordshire in England said she was due to complete her first house purchase today after waiting eight months to get to this point - but the outage has delayed that.
From BBC β Nov. 13, 2026
For some parents, it was a financial hardship to purchase the required uniform and pay ten pfennig, or pennies, as monthly dues.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
ChatGPT owner OpenAI said it expects users will eventually be able to delegate purchases entirely to their AI agent by setting parameters, such as spending limits and purchase categories.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 13, 2026
More than 10,000 purchases associated with him averaged roughly 6 points below the market over their reconstructed holding periods.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 13, 2026
Giving larger purchases more weight—a $100,000 investment counted more than a $10,000 investment—produced an estimated one-year advantage of 3.8 percentage points.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 13, 2026
Stripe is seeking to play a key role by leveraging its Link wallet, which has more than 300 million users, to enable agentic shoppers to execute purchases.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 13, 2026
We followed behind him, pausing for a few seconds here and there, pretending to consider other possible purchases that we had no intention of making.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
The ticket must have been purchased from June 28, 2020, to July 1, 2024, on the park’s official website, and the billing address used during checkout must have a California ZIP Code.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 13, 2026
Almost 40% of new homes purchased every year in the U.S. are bought between February through May.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 12, 2026
Another procurement notice dated September 4, also seen by AFP but no longer accessible as of Thursday, shows that NPU's cybersecurity school purchased two Nvidia H200s for 796,000 yuan.
From Barron's β Nov. 12, 2026
Although the sixpence had an individual price tag of £8, the entire album was subsequently purchased as a single lot rather than the coin being bought separately.
From Science Daily β Nov. 11, 2026
I would leave school before I would allow myself to be purchased.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Workers say rising food, housing, transport and healthcare costs have eroded their purchasing power in a country where inflation is running at around eight percent.
From Barron's β Nov. 14, 2026
Other U.S. airlines haven’t taken a public stance against AI agents, but United is joining companies like Amazon that are keeping the purchasing bots away.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 11, 2026
In 2026, premiums for Americans ages 50 to 64 purchasing insurance through the ACA marketplace doubled, while enrollment among that population fell by 6%, Baldwin said.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 11, 2026
It is not a situation Sir Jim Ratcliffe can have expected to find himself in again, less than three years after purchasing a minority stake in United.
From BBC β Nov. 10, 2026
She remained so until they were done purchasing their tickets at the ticket window and had walked outside to the platform to wait for their train.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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Material World: Shopping Lingo
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 1
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