acquisitive
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QXO QXO -0.43%decrease; red down pointing triangle agreed to buy closely held building materials distributor Kodiak Building Partners for about $2.25 billion in cash and stock, continuing its rapid acquisitive expansion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
By confronting the emptiness of consumerism, the Sex Pistols encourage listeners to get beyond object-oriented, acquisitive pursuits.
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2024
Big Oil replaces Big Tech at the top of Friday's corporate diary, with recently acquisitive Exxon Mobil and Chevron due to report.
From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2023
The majority of the money will finance a specialist police team that will work within OPAL, the national policing division that oversees intelligence on serious organised acquisitive crime.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2023
The tokens controversy was, I suppose, all part of our getting more acquisitive as we grew older.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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