purchase
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The ur gut® supplement is already available for purchase.
From Science Daily β Nov. 14, 2026
In effect, Greece had been borrowing money to purchase foreign goods.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 14, 2026
An image accompanying the post showed an estimated purchase price of $29,990, excluding taxes, and an estimated delivery date of December.
From Barron's β Nov. 14, 2026
Donations are used to purchase emergency hampers, treats or provide advice and assistance.
From BBC β Nov. 14, 2026
There were title deeds of the Piccadilly house in a great bundle; deeds of the purchase of the houses at Mile End and Bermondsey; note-paper, envelopes, and pens and ink.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Their average advantages remained positive when we followed purchases for a year.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 13, 2026
Across 43 stock purchases evaluated both ways, the average gain exceeded the market’s by about 25 points.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 13, 2026
Inflation also has boosted revenue through the value-added tax, assessed at a rate of 20% on most purchases.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 12, 2026
Signs of the economy’s strength are evident in robust spending on dining out and traveling — the sort of discretionary purchases that Americans tend to sacrifice when times are tough.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 12, 2026
Her customers, too, began to look like their purchases: Companera Sordo with her bristly jowls and upturned nose, Companero Llorente with his pink eyes and jerking chin.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina GarcΓa
The researchers nevertheless believe that most women who purchased the drugs were likely to have used them because of their substantial cost.
From Science Daily β Nov. 13, 2026
In 1990, the actor Marla Gibbs — known for her role as George Jefferson’s maid, Florence Johnston, on “The Jeffersons” — purchased the property and renamed it the Vision Theatre.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 13, 2026
The H200 chips were purchased for the management school of NPU, which is one of China's "Seven Sons of National Defence" universities that conduct defence-related research and maintain links with the country's military.
From Barron's β Nov. 12, 2026
OpenAI this week purchased Odessia, a startup developing artificial intelligence for booking travel.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 11, 2026
Today the AT is a wilderness by design—actually, by fiat, since many of the properties Shaffer passed were later compulsorily purchased and quietly returned to woodland.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
For example, some customers were now buying one portion of food to share, rather than purchasing one each, he said.
From BBC β Nov. 14, 2026
Alongside a rise in global borrowing costs and mortgage rates driven by geopolitical volatility, increasing energy bills are set to continue dragging on household purchasing power.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 12, 2026
Buck’s relationships with Nvidia’s hyperscaler customers also mean he has knowledge of “how technical decisions translate into purchasing commitments,” Olujobi told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 12, 2026
“Our combined purchasing levels will give us economies of scale by consolidating purchasing decisions into one centralized group,” the executives said in their letter.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 9, 2026
The doll was sold two weeks later to a grandmother who was purchasing her for a grandchild.
From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo
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