acquire

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ICE said it plans to spend $38.3 billion on a new detention model that includes acquiring warehouses and converting them into detention centers, according to a government memo, effectively creating a new commercial-real-estate asset class.

From The Wall Street Journal

Discovery out from under Netflix, which had an agreed deal in place since early December to acquire that company’s streaming and studio operations.

From MarketWatch

Like many chronic afflictions, Mets fandom can be hereditary or acquired.

From The Wall Street Journal

So what are the capabilities that currently only the US has and that Europe will need to acquire in the pursuit of Merz's "operational independence"?

From BBC

It’s “an old-fashioned land grab,” Bob Fryklund, S&P Global’s chief upstream energy strategist, said of the industry’s rush to acquire new acreage.

From Barron's