purchase
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GLP-1 users’ subdued urges and impulses pose a particular challenge for the racks of snacks sold in convenience stores and supermarket checkout aisles, where consumption often occurs within 30 minutes of purchase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
A club's owners could be considered to have moved shares into a new company to leave a sizeable purchase debt in the previous company, and effectively write it off.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
But the purchase of a new oven landed her in hot water.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Kushner, a co-founder of a venture capital firm Thrive Capital and the permanent holdings company Thrive Eternal, will have to divest a minority stake in the Miami Heat before the Lakers purchase can be approved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
For some parents, it was a financial hardship to purchase the required uniform and pay ten pfennig, or pennies, as monthly dues.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Delaware Life started a remediation plan months ago to restructure some of the loans, including through the TWG purchases, according to S&P Global.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Consumers have cut back on salad purchases, as the cyclospora outbreak keeps them wary of lettuce.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
People familiar with the company’s operations say Hengli has been buying sanctioned oil since at least late 2020, with purchases expanding after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
At one point in early July, some 90 percent of Russia's regions had imposed limits on fuel purchases -- mostly imposing maximum volume rules -- according to AFP calculations based on local announcements.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Ms. Hussey left the store with her purchases.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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The 605 acres were purchased by the National Park Service in 1981.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
In 2015, shortly after tying the knot to his second wife, Grace Miguel, he purchased a $3.3 million property above the Sunset Strip.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Four months later, having purchased a small number of animals locally to rear for meat, Fiona's fledgling farm in Creetown recorded the first ever case of bluetongue in Scotland.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
They can be purchased for prices ranging from around $4.6 million to $13.8 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
So, if a fallen rabbi who purchased stolen goods wasn’t bad enough, we now had to deal with a swamp hermit on top of that.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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The school opted for a middle ground, purchasing 200 graphing calculators from French company NumWorks for its ninth-grade classes, with plans to create a schoolwide rollout over three years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Delaware Life has started a remediation plan to restructure some of the loans, review others and address its “control deficiencies,” including through TWG purchasing some of the loans, according to ratings outfit S&P Global.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The closely watched KOF economic barometer climbed above its second-quarter average in July, while activity as recorded by purchasing managers eased in July but remained in growth mode, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It is Bezos's first investment in a sports team after he was previously linked with purchasing NFL franchises Seattle Seahawks and Washington Commanders.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
She remained so until they were done purchasing their tickets at the ticket window and had walked outside to the platform to wait for their train.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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