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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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It also provided more detail on its massive computing spending, disclosing that it entered into purchase commitments and lease agreements with an aggregate committed spend of approximately $895.4 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Nagar said he hoped all those who gave donations that led to the purchase of DaVinci could see the money had gone to good use.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Decorate your own sugar skull, grab a bite to eat at the food trucks, purchase something from the mercado, pay a visit to the community altar, or go see some live entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

Hope Springs Hardware was covered with signs advertising a “Sizzling Summer Sale” and free tickets to Griggs’ Rigs Racing with any purchase.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Meanwhile, further down the financial statements, Lee was struck by Palantir’s free cash flow, a measure of the company’s ability to generate cash in excess of what it spends on operations and equipment purchases.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

There are different affordability checks for different purchases, partially based on how much is borrowed.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 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

"Channeling it back to infrastructure investment tied to purchases of Nvidia equipment is a smart thing."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

There are receipts for big and small purchases, lease agreements, tax documents, warranties, and instruction manuals.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

In 2015, she purchased the property for $10 million, and it served as her primary residence until she parted ways with it a decade later, selling it for $12 million.

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

What the other dogs, the ones Mr. Weiss had purchased, would do, I didn't know.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

The RatingDog general manufacturing purchasing managers index edged down just a tad to 52.0 last month from 52.1 in September, data released by S&P Global showed Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

On the economic data front the Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers’ index rose to 55.5 in October from 54.5 in September, and well above the 50 level that indicates an expansionary reading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

As Anna Holmes recently pointed out in her blistering New Yorker essay, more than half of millennials have had parental help purchasing their home.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

They provided against Lent by purchasing dates, and green ginger of almonds, and herrings at 4s. 6d. the borse-load.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White


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