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per

[pur, per] / pɜr, pər /


PREPOSITION
by means of
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From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Earlier this month, GameStop announced it offered to acquire EBay for $125.00 per share in cash and stock.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Clarke played 309 NBA games, including 50 starts, and scored an average of 10.2 points per game.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

For an upcoming trip, Reynolds chose to fly into Prague, then take a $70 first-class train ride to Vienna, her ultimate destination, because the airfare was nearly $300 cheaper per person.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

Over the next four hours, fifty-five minutes, and twenty-three seconds, he orbited the world three times, at more than seventeen thousand miles per hour.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson