purchased
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Computer chip and software developer Broadcom purchased the Irvine office compound it rented in the latest example of a well-funded company taking advantage of depressed real estate prices to switch from renter to owner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The team at CR purchased samples of a variety of lunchbox foods—everything from Takis to oat bars—and tested them for several chemicals that they described as contaminants.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
The city purchased the 20-acre tract of land over 10 years ago and originally planned to build government facilities there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Before the work started, he and Defrancesco married at their newly purchased but very much unrenovated residence, in front of the “monumental fireplace” with just 40 guests in attendance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 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
