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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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Antonyms
WEAK




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Donations are used to purchase emergency hampers, treats or provide advice and assistance.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

The White House says the US Department of Defense acquired a 30 percent equity stake in NABEP, authorizing it to purchase 20 percent of its oil at production cost.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

Each approval creates a clear record of the purchase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Murray, whose three decades of achievement were marred by his role in a real estate purchase that brought federal charges against a middleman last year, has died at 66.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

He prospered from his farming so much that he was able to purchase the manor of Woolsthorpe in 1623, gaining the title of Lord of the Manor.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

The BOJ plans to conduct purchases of Japanese government bonds with maturities of three to five years, five to 10 years and longer than 25 years on Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

ChatGPT owner OpenAI said it expects users will eventually be able to delegate purchases entirely to their AI agent by setting parameters, such as spending limits and purchase categories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Amazon in September blocked Meta’s Muse from making purchases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

More than 10,000 purchases associated with him averaged roughly 6 points below the market over their reconstructed holding periods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

We followed behind him, pausing for a few seconds here and there, pretending to consider other possible purchases that we had no intention of making.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

And if neither, please explain where you purchased the magic wand you apparently want to use to make the program solvent again.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

The researchers nevertheless believe that most women who purchased the drugs were likely to have used them because of their substantial cost.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

In 1990, the actor Marla Gibbs — known for her role as George Jefferson’s maid, Florence Johnston, on “The Jeffersons” — purchased the property and renamed it the Vision Theatre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

The H200 chips were purchased for the management school of NPU, which is one of China's "Seven Sons of National Defence" universities that conduct defence-related research and maintain links with the country's military.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

The teenage boy purchased by Washington at auction fourteen years earlier was now a man of about thirty.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Stripe is embracing agentic purchasing and using tokens and virtual cards, while JPMorgan Chase is blocking some agentic purchases and is skeptical of the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

“For housing, the key question is not simply whether mortgage rates decline, but whether they fall enough to meaningfully improve purchasing power and bring more buyers and sellers back to the market,” Hepp said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

It is not a situation Sir Jim Ratcliffe can have expected to find himself in again, less than three years after purchasing a minority stake in United.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

“Our combined purchasing levels will give us economies of scale by consolidating purchasing decisions into one centralized group,” the executives said in their letter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

A jelly-bellied officer with thick spectacles was purchasing a tall stack of books from the man behind the counter.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson


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