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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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WEAK




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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 ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

From Barron's ● 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 ● 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 ● Oct. 31, 2026

My last purchase was a wicker travel case for Mr. Whiskers.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

From BBC ● 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 ● 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 ● 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

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

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

“But I say to Drew, you purchased $250 to $300 a piece tickets,” McHenry said.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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 ● 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

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 ● 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 ● Oct. 30, 2026

That’s the equivalent of losing 23% of your purchasing power over the full decade.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

“It’s not predatory just because we’re purchasing receivables on it,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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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