acquired
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He added that Massie had his enemies in the state politics – acquired by not playing nice with local business leaders and disregarding the everyday work of legislating in favour of high-publicity efforts.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Musk acquired it in October 2022 for roughly $44 billion, rebranded it as X, cut a large portion of its staff, and loosened content moderation policies.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
D1 is sitting on paper gains of about $9 billion on SpaceX stock that it acquired over several years for about $600 million, other people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
In February, it was acquired by another of Musk’s companies, SpaceX, which plans to file paperwork for an initial public offering as soon as this week, according to reports.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
But as he was taken up in the universities of medieval and Renaissance Europe his works became a textbook of acquired knowledge, not a project to provoke further enquiry.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing acquired
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 12–15
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Evolutionary Biology - Adaptation
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STAAR Biology: Biological Evolution and Classification
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