purchase
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I walked around Boston for a few hours, to think through the implications of going ahead with a full purchase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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
Apple also announced a new monthly leasing program called Apple Upgrade, which lets customers pay off their purchase over one or two years.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Hope Springs Hardware was covered with signs advertising a “Sizzling Summer Sale” and free tickets to Griggs’ Rigs Racing with any purchase.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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Some tax cuts, particularly faster write-offs for equipment purchases and factory construction, may reduce revenue now and yield growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
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
“The market is telling us this size of purchases didn’t achieve it,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
To finance their arms purchases, the Allies had borrowed more than two billion dollars from American banks, a debt that would never be repaid if Germany won the war.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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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
Passengers who post about their trips on social media say there is no onboard entertainment or alcohol, and tickets have to be purchased in cash instead of international credit or debit cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
He may also present the Irish Open winner with the trophy on Sunday evening amid a significantly enhanced security presence at the property he purchased in 2014.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
This time he purchased a Liberty launch, a fifty-foot-long empty boat hull with a hole in it.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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
The Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index for services providers was 55.4 in August compared with 54.1 in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Eastern, and the Institute of Supply Management’s services purchasing managers’ index for August at 10 a.m.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
He and Candice then spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon driving to every electronics store in Lambert before finally purchasing a new, top-of-the-line laptop.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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