purchase
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Football players are using their NIL earnings to purchase properties in college towns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
His largest purchase was a £124,500 motorhome which he kitted out with luxury extras and top-of-the-range toiletries.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Roblox is a highly customizable gaming platform where users can create their own games and related content, and then share them for others to play and even purchase.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The items must be unused and with proof of purchase, to receive a full refund.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
He stops briefly to watch the sparkling bonfire and then at a vendor to purchase a bag of chocolates to make up for his mostly uneaten dinner.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Roblox is forecasting a 14 percent to 18 percent drop in overall purchases made by players in the current quarter, and its share price has lost more than two-thirds of its value since its high.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
She can then control the intervals and make sure she has cash for large purchases if she wants it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Primark did not sell goods online until 2022, when it launched a click-and-collect service which meant shoppers still had to travel to pick up their purchases.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Around 30% of home purchases in the San Francisco metro area were all-cash between April and June, according to Redfin, the digital real-estate brokerage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Heather sighs and smiles dreamily at Vivi as we load our purchases into the trunk of Heather’s Prius.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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All told, the Perlmans purchased more than 200 works from Roberts’s gallery they believed were by Warhol.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Marc Jacobs might be best known for his catwalk creations, but in 2019, he took on the ambitious project of overhauling a $9.17 million Frank Lloyd Wright–designed property that he purchased on a whim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
New data shows nearly one in five properties in St Andrews were registered to an address outside of Scotland when purchased, including 164 buyers from the United States alone.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The former couple purchased a six-bedroom Beverly Hills estate for $6 million in 2015 and later sold it for $5.925 million in 2021, three years after announcing their separation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
I purchased a ticket from the kiosk man.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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I recently thought about purchasing a condo, but to use any of the annuity dollars, the taxes are really out there because it was purchased with pretax dollars.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
The rial has plunged to record lows, reaching around 2.2 million to the US dollar in recent days, while year-on-year inflation hit 89 percent for the Iranian month ending August 22, sharply eroding purchasing power.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Further, Mr. Stier’s suggestion that China is purchasing significant quantities of American sulfur and thereby threatening supplies for U.S. farmers is not supported by the trade data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Eastern, and the Institute of Supply Management’s services purchasing managers’ index for August at 10 a.m.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
All of my research on Muslim purchasing power indicated that if we created a product that appealed to and satisfied the needs of Muslim consumers, the company would be successful.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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