buying

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Instead of buying an endless parade of individual ingredients, you’re strategically outsourcing part of the flavor-building process.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

Home-improvement retailers–which rely on housing turnover to drive sales since homeowners often undertake remodeling projects before selling or after buying a home–are trying to cope with a stubbornly slow housing market.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

She said she also saw people leave the shop after buying a watch being met by people offering to give them double what they had paid for it.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Oppenheimer recommends buying Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple, while 22V Research favors defensive names like PepsiCo and CVS.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

“Shorting Home Equity Mezzanine Tranches” was just a fancy way to describe Mike Burry’s idea of betting against U.S. home loans: buying credit default swaps on the crappiest triple-B slices of subprime mortgage bonds.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis