procure

Example Sentences

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Councils in Wales procure food for school meals through formal public sector contracts.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

Utilities in New Jersey procure power from independent generators and pass on wholesale power prices, along with their costs for transmission and distribution, to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

US-Nigerian cooperation going forward will involve "the whole gamut of intel sharing, sharing... tactics, techniques, and procedures, as well as enabling them to procure more equipment," Brennan said.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

A Pentagon program called Drone Dominance aims to spend $1.1 billion on U.S. dronemakers to procure hundreds of thousands of the systems by 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

At one point in his Account he spoke about the Free African Society offering to procure nurses for the sick under the direction of Jones, Allen, and Gray.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy