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purchase

[pur-chuhs] / ˈpɜr tʃəs /
NOUN
possession obtained with money
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




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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

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

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

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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