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obtain

[uhb-tayn] / əbˈteɪn /


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The incident has drawn widespread public attention and renewed scrutiny of Indonesia's prisons, which have long faced allegations that wealthy or well-connected inmates can obtain preferential treatment through bribery.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Nelson said Dave offers a “less onerous” way for customers to obtain banking services than they can find at large traditional banks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Iran requires ships to obtain authorization before passage, citing security and sovereignty reasons.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

For decades, researchers believed that cells could not simply obtain cysteine from their surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

During the next several months, Guiteau and his family attempted to obtain a pardon, going as far as sending their request to President Arthur.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

The Social Security Administration obtains medical records to determine a person’s eligibility when they apply for disability benefits.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

She obtains injectable peptides from them because, she says, there is less or no enforcement of how compounds made in such pharmacies are categorized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

"Immediate supply shortages" were not expected as Germany only obtains a small proportion of its energy supplies from the Middle East, it said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

The plot basically sticks to the first seven chapters of the 100-chapter novel, which concerns an engagingly impulsive monkey who obtains superpowers and, to protect his monkey community, enjoys one wily adventure after another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

If she obtains a copy of the exam early—that is, illegitimately—she can prepare them for specific questions.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

The Journal obtained those figures for 14 individual departments in five states and compared them with per-officer payout amounts and program requirements published by DHS.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported that it had obtained information that Kasparov, along with another Russian opposition figure, Ilya Ponomarev, had been warned about the plot over the summer by US authorities.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The so-called lock-in effect, where people hold on to ultralow-rate mortgages obtained during the pandemic, “is creating a supply floor which will keep inventory from exploding and will keep prices from dropping dramatically,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Police bodycam footage, obtained by TMZ, revealed the family was fighting over a recent health scare involving Milania.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The results obtained by this procedure were, by historical standards, stunningly high.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The legislation followed growing complaints that brokers were obtaining reservations at Los Angeles municipal courses and reselling them, often advertising slots through social media, including the Korean messaging app KakaoTalk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Nagy's team contributed analytical capabilities that helped the researchers determine how the cells were still obtaining cysteine from cystine despite lacking a working disulfide reductase system.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

She also said Buzbee and other lawyers acting on her behalf filed it "without conducting any independent investigation, background inquiry, or due diligence, and without obtaining any corroboration of the allegations".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The downside of the lender obtaining insurance is that you have no control over the cost or the coverage.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Preliminary experiments,” he wrote, “indicate that there are probably no serious difficulties in the way of obtaining protons having high enough speeds to be useful for studies of atomic nuclei.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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