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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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Walter was a little-known financier until 2012 when he purchased the Dodgers with the backing of Guggenheim-tied insurers to help pay for the then-record $2.15 billion purchase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The Vermont purchase emerged as the family considered a change for their son, Oakley, who wanted to attend high school there.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

He stated they came across Pablo on the middle of the road on the way home to Ayrshire after a journey to Edinburgh for the other man to purchase a car.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Ryanair, which is Europe's biggest airline by passenger numbers and flies mainly across the continent, said the cost of fuel not subject to advance purchase agreements had soared owing to the US-Iran war.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Two days after that, they actually signed a contract to purchase it.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

The central bank said Tuesday it has conducted operations involving the equivalent of more than $10 billion to help financial institutions get more liquid assets in their portfolios to fund stock purchases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Megaspeed has reportedly continued buying Nvidia products this year, sometimes using intermediaries, and Chang said those purchases will likely invite questions over how the chip maker is vetting customers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 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

“It’ll be nice to wear something authentic, even if the role is not very original,” Anna May said while I wrapped her purchases and made up her ticket.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Walter was a little-known financier until 2012 when he purchased the Dodgers with the backing of Guggenheim-tied insurers to help pay for the then-record $2.15 billion purchase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Meranda's necklace and the 25 other pieces purchased by Watchdog were analysed by the Sheffield Assay Office.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

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

Workers say the rising cost of food, housing, transport and healthcare has eroded their purchasing power in a country with eight percent inflation.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

The Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers’ index was 55.5 in October – higher than the September figure of 54.5.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

Family purchasing committees, duly elected, bought the food, clothes, furniture, and athletic equipment.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey


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