purchase
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Friday marks the one-year anniversary of Ellison’s purchase of Paramount.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Because I had designated the cash as my farmers market budget, the card purchase belonged to a parallel economy; by this logic, my $45 remained intact.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Call options give the buyer the right to purchase an underlying share at a particular price within a specified time.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
It recently launched a feature called Reserved, which saves two concert tickets for some artists’ biggest fans to purchase before tickets go on general sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The story of Paul Jennings working off his purchase price after nearly half a century of slavery is remarkable enough.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Sarah and Leanne sold their house for a profit four years after moving in, and they put the equity they'd built up toward their next, separate purchases.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
June’s rise in exports was buoyed by a nearly 28% increase in precious metals with a rise in gold shipments to the U.K. and higher purchases of Canadian-held gold by foreign residents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Then I decide roughly how many purchases I want to make.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
On occasion, they’ve even had to share that unwelcome news with friends who sponsored the plants’ purchases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Her customers, too, began to look like their purchases: Companera Sordo with her bristly jowls and upturned nose, Companero Llorente with his pink eyes and jerking chin.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Investors purchased the site, once home to the industrial juggernaut Bethlehem Steel, starting in 2014 for redevelopment and renamed it Tradepoint Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Family Nursing and Home Care said it had purchased 10 hospital-grade breast pumps and single-use pump kits.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
George reportedly purchased two adjacent villas in Lake Como in the early 2000s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
In Tokyo, Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama also confirmed the joint intervention, saying the ministry on Friday "purchased the Japanese yen in coordination with the US Department of the Treasury."
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Government officials in Port-au-Prince told the peasants that their pigs would be replaced with pigs purchased in the United States, from Iowa farmers.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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The reduction in purchasing activity and continuing accumulation of input stocks warrant attention, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
July manufacturing purchasing managers’ data for Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the eurozone are due on Monday, followed by purchasing managers’ data for services on Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
She posited that the value of a currency should reflect its purchasing power and the best way to assess this was to use one “perfect universal commodity” — the Big Mac.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
In the main gym foyer, there’s an area for people to watch live streams of games while purchasing food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
They provided against Lent by purchasing dates, and green ginger of almonds, and herrings at 4s. 6d. the borse-load.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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