purchase
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After weighing all of these factors, I decided to plunge forward, and began to assemble a team that would help me get to a purchase agreement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Roblox is a highly customizable gaming platform where users can create their own games and related content, and then share them for others to play and even purchase.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
As for the Isle of Gigha, that is now in the safe hands of its residents – who crowdfunded £4m to purchase it in 2002 and take control of their own destiny.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Her biggest purchase: several customized computer chips and development boards that ran around $10,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Hila made a furious noise, shaking her head as if he had only forgotten to purchase the right brand of paper towels, and was already shifting slowly toward Ashmodai.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Consumers expecting prolonged inflation often rush into purchases, which puts even more upward pressure on prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Roblox is forecasting a 14 percent to 18 percent drop in overall purchases made by players in the current quarter, and its share price has lost more than two-thirds of its value since its high.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
She can then control the intervals and make sure she has cash for large purchases if she wants it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
On Wednesday, the average price was 97.05p per litre, according to the comparison website boilerjuice.com, external, which measures the cost for purchases of 1,000 litres.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
There are receipts for big and small purchases, lease agreements, tax documents, warranties, and instruction manuals.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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Over the years, many free African-Americans saved their hard-won earnings and purchased property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
You pay ordinary income tax on the cost basis — that is, the amount you paid when you first purchased the stock — in the year you take the distribution.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Chelsea owners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital self-reported 74 breaches of Football Association rules when they purchased the club in 2022.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
One engineer who was an early employee at OpenAI says he purchased a home in San Francisco for over $4 million all-cash just ahead of the buying frenzy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The enslaved family Jackson had purchased while in Washington also came back to the Hermitage with him.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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I recently thought about purchasing a condo, but to use any of the annuity dollars, the taxes are really out there because it was purchased with pretax dollars.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
A report by the Deutsche Bank Research Institute published in July found that the yen’s purchasing power had halved since 2012, making Japan an outlier in terms of the cheapness of its currency.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The rial has plunged to record lows, reaching around 2.2 million to the US dollar in recent days, while year-on-year inflation hit 89 percent for the Iranian month ending August 22, sharply eroding purchasing power.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Before purchasing a Flock ALPR, his department would recover an average of three stolen cars a year.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
You could also obtain an artifact by killing an avatar who had one in its inventory, or by purchasing one in an online auction.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 1
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