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Which city did President Jefferson hope to acquire before making the Louisiana Purchase?

purchase

[pur-chuhs] / ˈpɜr tΚƒΙ™s /
NOUN
possession obtained with money
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Millions of homeowners secured historically low mortgage rates during the pandemic, either with a new home purchase or by refinancing an existing mortgage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

The ur gut® supplement is already available for purchase.

From Science Daily ● 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 ● 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 ● Nov. 13, 2026

The rallypops she refers to are treats free with a purchase at many l-lope Springs local shops.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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 ● 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 ● Nov. 13, 2026

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 ● Nov. 13, 2026

With that many purchases, even a blind squirrel will find some nuts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Nowhere in that vast array of purchases from Mr. Hanson was a gun.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Tesla’s claim that the Cybercab can only be purchased for personal use means buyers won’t be able to immediately make money with the vehicle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

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 ● Nov. 13, 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 ● 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 ● Nov. 11, 2026

The man in the fedora hat purchased four newspapers, which he handed to the others.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

For example, some customers were now buying one portion of food to share, rather than purchasing one each, he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Greece ranks as the second-poorest nation in the EU—ahead of only Bulgaria—in per capita GDP adjusted for purchasing power, according to the World Bank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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 ● 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 ● Nov. 9, 2026

He and Candice then spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon driving to every electronics store in Lambert before finally purchasing a new, top-of-the-line laptop.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson


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