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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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Sethi cautions that just because you can purchase a house doesn’t mean buying one is a good idea; far from it.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Under the five-year contract, the banks will support the purchase of chips and infrastructure, which Anthropic will lease to run its AI.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

A coalition of major financial institutions is lining up $63 billion in financing to purchase artificial-intelligence computing infrastructure from Broadcom and lease it to Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Tariq said buyers should seek professional advice and understand all their options before making such a significant purchase.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

“We’ve used every scrap of construction paper in the whole district. And there’s no money in the budget to purchase more.”

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Other times, he skips verification entirely and takes the card straight to the store to make purchases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

“I don’t think I’ve made more than two mistakes with my houses, purchases for my houses, or the clothes in my closet.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Much of the money the firms borrowed for their buyouts came in the form of seven-year loans, since fund managers typically aim to flip their purchases in that time frame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

It has also rolled out autonomous delivery vehicles and, like Instacart, offered purchases via ChatGPT.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

He added some Italian junk food to the basket, just to sort of disguise his more suspicious purchases, then dumped his stuff at the register.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

She and her husband purchased their first home in Connecticut in 2018.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

In the US, music used at campaign rallies often requires a public performance licence for it to be played for an audience, even if a campaign has already purchased a legal copy of the recording.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Maggie, in Tucson, also purchased her home in 2021.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

The U.S. at one time purchased ingredients for energetics from Russia and China, but many of those exports have been restricted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

I purchased a ticket from the kiosk man.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The scheme is expected to offer 2.5% deposits alongside government-backed equity loans for eligible first-time buyers purchasing new-build homes.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Official manufacturing and nonmanufacturing purchasing managers indexes for October follow Saturday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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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