purchase
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Marvell stock jumps after the chip maker announces it issued a warrant to Google to purchase up to 59 million shares.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Companies collect vast amounts of data about consumers, including browsing history, location, device type, purchase patterns, and even how long a cursor hovers over a product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Juanlu Sanchez, a £11m signing from Sevilla, has Champions League experience and could prove yet another clever Cherries purchase.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Contract signings to purchase existing homes fell 2.3% in July from the previous month, as high mortgage rates hindered transactions.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The rallypops she refers to are treats free with a purchase at many l-lope Springs local shops.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Years of falling property prices and economic uncertainty have made Chinese households cautious about big purchases, even as Beijing tries to shift more of the economy toward consumption.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Consumers have cut back on salad purchases, as the cyclospora outbreak keeps them wary of lettuce.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Delaware Life started a remediation plan months ago to restructure some of the loans, including through the TWG purchases, according to S&P Global.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Nvidia has moved beyond earlier mechanisms for circular financing, such as making equity investments in OpenAI and other AI firms, to newer structures that make chip purchases cheaper by lowering the cost of borrowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Phineas bought things only on impulse and only when he had the money, and since the two states rarely coincided his purchases were few and strange.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Personally, Lynch loved modern architecture, and experienced love at first sight with the home he purchased in the mid-’80s in the Hollywood Hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
According to records, the musician purchased the home for $3.9 million in 2021.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
They can be purchased for prices ranging from around $4.6 million to $13.8 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
In 2025, a judge ruled using books purchased in this way to train AI software was not a violation of US copyright law.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He claimed he was once a wealthy son of a khan who purchased dreams.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
BRP says that up to 70% of all transactions are financed “making this an important factor in purchasing decisions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The school opted for a middle ground, purchasing 200 graphing calculators from French company NumWorks for its ninth-grade classes, with plans to create a schoolwide rollout over three years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
If the total price isn’t prominently displayed or isn’t shown until the end of the purchasing process, consumers may have to go through the checkout process for several flights to see which is the cheapest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
It is Bezos's first investment in a sports team after he was previously linked with purchasing NFL franchises Seattle Seahawks and Washington Commanders.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Gerry then presented his own personal estimate of the revenue required to compensate the slave owners for purchasing their slaves at current market value and came up with the figure of $10 million.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Material World: Shopping Lingo
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