purchase
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By agreeing to the arrangement, users were signed up for a scheme where they agreed to purchase a certain number of products over a specific amount of time at full price.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Seating is first come, first served, but guests can purchase a reserved spot to guarantee a prime spot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
SpaceX has also scored wins at the Federal Communications Commission, which in May approved the company’s plan to purchase spectrum rights to connect mobile phones with satellites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s important to purchase an extinguisher that is both large enough and rated for the types of fires you may experience on the road.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
“So as we go down each aisle, I’ll tell you what your family can purchase from each food group.”
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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Columbia House drew further claims of bad business by allegedly refusing to acknowledge payments, discounting items so that users’ purchases fell just below the agreed-upon threshold and being a notoriously difficult subscription to terminate.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
The purchases are expected to provide support to the domestic bond market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Such measures could include increased bond purchases beyond the scale announced the day before.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
With so much unknown about availability and pricing in 2027, many have chosen to hold off on any Olympic purchases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Others offer to carry purchases of fruits and vegetables from stall to stall in rustic wooden wheelbarrows in exchange for tips.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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Two years later, the tribe and a business partner purchased Red Cedar Gathering Co., taking ownership of the infrastructure needed to move their gas to market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
And cheering parents showed up in Trojan shirts and gear freshly purchased on campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Divine is backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who had a senior role at the social media platform when it purchased the Vine in 2012.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
But the government rejects the criticism, arguing that it has invested in ground-based resources, which it says are more effective, and purchased helicopters for water-bombing operations, with deliveries of the aircraft under way.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
He claimed he was once a wealthy son of a khan who purchased dreams.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Thrive Enternal’s first entry into sports was purchasing a noncontrolling stake in the San Francisco Giants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
Haber said he believes the loss of tax revenue from fewer people purchasing pricey homes in New York would offset the effects of the pied-à-terre tax.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Yet she enjoyed the challenge of this lyrical and experimental work, eventually purchasing a first edition of the novel and a reissue from 1960.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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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