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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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In early March, Nvidia announced a multiyear purchase commitment for Lumentum’s advanced laser components.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

He stated they came across Pablo on the middle of the road on the way home to Ayrshire after a journey to Edinburgh for the other man to purchase a car.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Buyers: no reason to lock down a purchase when costs have climbed.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Her 21-year-old son is getting married soon, and Allen and her husband plan to give him cash toward the purchase of a house.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

“Every man and woman in the United States will be asked to purchase war savings stamps,” I set the paper down.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

On this read, their stock purchases are part of a pay-to-play needed to ensure the hyperscaler buys their chips at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Slow down your purchases: is what you are buying essential or can you postpone it?

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The other three companies reported negative free cash flow for the third quarter, meaning that they spent more on infrastructure, data centers and related purchases than they generated in cash through their businesses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Some of the purchases were also placed during times when school was not in session, he added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Then he called all the shoppers a few weeks later to find out how happy they were with their purchases.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Retired Major League Baseball star Matt Holliday is ready to part ways with the newly built Paradise Valley, Ariz., estate he purchased earlier this year.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

In fact, Batista purchased a home in Daytona Beach and lived there for several years following his initial ouster in the mid-1940s.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Records show that Atavis was purchased by a doctor in Baltimore County, Maryland, at age 23 and stayed with the family after slavery ended and was buried in the family cemetery in 1874.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

He would later record the events in a diary, writing: "We all assembled... replete with balloons, one pole-full of which I was carrying while dressed as Father Christmas - a plastic suit purchased at Woolworths."

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

After calling in sick, he hopped into his newly purchased car and drove off to meet his friend Bill Wernecke, a fervent Nazi supporter and an expert draft dodger.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

In many of the protests, as in Spain, Portugal and Greece, housing is "a central element" because it is directly tied to purchasing power and "an ever-more unequal distribution of wealth", the researcher added.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Workers say the rising cost of food, housing, transport and healthcare has eroded their purchasing power in a country with eight percent inflation.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

The Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index was 55.5 in October—higher than the September figure of 54.5.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Thereafter, an Abu Dhabi–backed group invested $2 billion in crypto company Binance by purchasing World Liberty “stablecoins,” giving World Liberty $2 billion in deposits to invest.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

What’s more, the release of Hamilton's plan produced a purchasing frenzy, as bankers and investors aware of the funding proposal bought up the securities in expectation of a tidy profit.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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