purchase
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Its Buy For Me feature lets users purchase some of those items from other merchants, but without leaving Amazon’s site.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 1, 2026
Buyers: no reason to lock down a purchase when costs have climbed.
From Barron's β Nov. 1, 2026
They continued to a local winery, to talk about oil and other business deals - the planned Hungarian purchase of Serbia's Nis oil refinery.
From BBC β Nov. 1, 2026
The investigation also found that Mailyan used the Medicare payments to fund many of the vacations she took and purchase luxury collectibles such as a $12,000 17th-century crossbow and a $3,000 painting, prosecutors said.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 31, 2026
My last purchase was a wicker travel case for Mr. Whiskers.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Slow down your purchases: is what you are buying essential or can you postpone it?
From BBC β Nov. 1, 2026
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 β Nov. 1, 2026
Intel’s management team noted that while elevated memory prices are crimping PC demand, another issue is that corporate information-technology teams now face more limited budgets for equipment purchases.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 30, 2026
Some of the purchases were also placed during times when school was not in session, he added.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 30, 2026
I try to hit as many stalls as possible, spreading out my purchases of coffee, buns, eggs, yarn, and oil.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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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 β 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 β Nov. 1, 2026
“But I say to Drew, you purchased $250 to $300 a piece tickets,” McHenry said.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 29, 2026
The corporation said the Lotto Max jackpot ticket was purchased a year ago at a retailer in Grey County, Ontario.
From BBC β Oct. 28, 2026
A ferryman purchased from a neighbor in 1767, he was listed as the chief cook by 1787 in plantation records.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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The official manufacturing purchasing managers index fell to 49.3 in October, down from 50.1 in September, said the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 31, 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 β Oct. 30, 2026
That’s the equivalent of losing 23% of your purchasing power over the full decade.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 29, 2026
“It’s not predatory just because we’re purchasing receivables on it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 28, 2026
While the day of waiting was tediously slow, the line to enter the circus moves remarkably fast, and soon Bailey is standing at the ticket booth, purchasing a single admission.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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