purchases
Example Sentences
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It found purchases of essentials excluding fuel grew for the period, while cardholder spending on discretionary goods recovered after a weak year and a half.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
Such measures could include increased bond purchases beyond the scale announced the day before.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Treasury said it would at least double its purchases of longer-dated government bonds in an effort to bring down long-term borrowing costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The store owned a bicycle which I used in delivering purchases.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
