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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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The head of Gordon Brothers' European operations reportedly told the government that the firm stood by its stewardship and had given Poundland £85m in additional financing since its purchase in 2025.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

William Blair analyst Arjun Bhatia said investors are concerned that revenue may not scale meaningfully enough over the years for Anthropic to meet its purchase commitments.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

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

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

The only thing left to do in the Hideout is set up my thrift store purchase.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

If AI agents increasingly make purchases, brands may have less incentive to pay Amazon for ads that no longer influence what consumers buy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Intel’s management team noted that while elevated memory prices are crimping PC demand, another issue is that corporate information-technology teams now face more limited budgets for equipment purchases.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 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

I try to hit as many stalls as possible, spreading out my purchases of coffee, buns, eggs, yarn, and oil.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Of the eight items found to have breached cadmium limits: three were purchased from Amazon, three from Temu and one from each of OnBuy and Etsy.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

Apple raised prices on many of its offerings earlier this year, and is taking steps to offset the rising prices by relying on previously purchased inventory and cutting costs on non-memory components.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 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

Today the AT is a wilderness by design—actually, by fiat, since many of the properties Shaffer passed were later compulsorily purchased and quietly returned to woodland.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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 “Degrassi” alum snapped up the property at a steep discount, purchasing it for just $7.7 million in 2012.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 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. 2, 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

He promptly took advantage of the windfall by purchasing a beautiful eighteenth-century Tassini viola, lest the money be snatched away as abruptly and mysteriously as it had arrived.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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