purchase
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At one with Burberry, guests could purchase and customize vintage trench coats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Should she purchase ”incredibly expensive” long-term-care insurance for her and for her husband?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Once gasoline prices hit $4 a gallon, he said, Dollar General customers tend to shop more often but purchase less on each trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Ellison and longtime Skydance investor, RedBird Capital Partners, then entered into agreements to assign some of their purchase rights to the sovereign wealth funds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Using extreme caution, they only bought earphones from storeowners whom they trusted not to report the purchase to the Gestapo.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Florida is giving the growers subsidies for those purchases, as part of a $330 million package over two years to revitalize the industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
On trade, there is "room for progress on tariffs, agricultural purchases and selected export controls", Yue Su of The Economist Intelligence Unit told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
With 10-year Treasury yields around 5% and mortgage rates near 7%, housing, car purchases and discretionary spending were already cooling, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
These 0% introductory rates are for purchases only.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
We pause just outside the entrance, our purchases and slushies in hand.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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The men purchased their Reese’s at Publix but used prices from Walmart, Target and Hershey’s online store to support their claim, according to Reuters.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Along with co-op facilities, he also purchased a plot of land in Delano to house the union’s first headquarters and learned how to handle media amid Chávez’s historic fasts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The 43-year-old set up the Angel City FC women's football club in Los Angeles six years ago after leaving Reddit, and purchased a 10% stake in Women's Super League team Chelsea in 2025.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Thankfully, my parents had purchased long-term-care insurance and had paid premiums for about 12 years.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
This time he purchased a Liberty launch, a fifty-foot-long empty boat hull with a hole in it.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s vice president of media partnerships, testified in the lawsuit that he wasn’t aware of OpenAI’s purchasing books at scale and scanning them for training purposes, according to the filing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Ms. Acton is highlighting a plan to use the state’s purchasing leverage to lower the cost of medications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Trade and defence procurement: Canada has been on a "buy European" spree of late, purchasing German attack submarines, for example, and airborne early-warning planes from Sweden's Saab.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
When they rise substantially, it means money is genuinely becoming more expensive to borrow for U.S. consumers and businesses in terms of actual purchasing power.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
After the arrival of Europeans, the Big Island’s King Kamehameha I rapidly proceeded with the consolidation of the largest islands by purchasing European guns and ships to invade and conquer first Maui and then Oahu.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Material World: Shopping Lingo
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 1
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