buy
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Just over a decade ago, everyday Americans were just starting to buy stocks on their smartphones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
“He asked to buy the shirt off my back,” said Wray, who declined the offer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
And right now owners buy teams to keep, not to unload and make a quick profit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The lack of water has ravaged grasslands and left ranchers unable to grow enough hay, forcing them to buy feed for their cows at high prices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Mom was too busy to take me shopping this spring, and Dad refused to buy me a new bathing suit, even though it was only a hundred dollars.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion as it spreads bets across Anthropic, OpenAI, and their open-weight competitors.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Amazon buys the same graphics cards from the same supply, so the shortage reaches its customers at a higher rate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
But what happens when those impulse buys become a habit rather than a one-off?
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
China buys more than 80% of Iranian oil exports, and although the blockade has limited deliveries, Beijing imported more than 500,000 barrels a day so far in August, according to data firm Kpler.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
He buys the cake trimmings from a German baker who looks most pleased at all his new customers.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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The 56-year-old bought the 19th Century Georgian mansion in Llanwenarth, near Abergavenny, in November 2025.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
He also bought several historic buildings in the resort town of Crested Butte, Colo., where he and his philanthropist wife own a home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The group bought the plot to hold onto, Orr said, until creeping growth from the Dallas-Fort Worth area made it attractive for redevelopment.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
This week: Nvidia joined Silicon Valley’s A.I. investment frenzy and bought Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
There was a first-rate shirt, a pair of trousers that looked brand-new, knitted socks, and storebought suspenders that must have been bought out of Aunt Pretty’s pin money.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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These tasks include: remembering school trips, checking for updates in parents' WhatsApp groups, noticing which parts of the house need cleaning, monitoring how much sleep children get, scheduling doctors' appointments and buying school uniforms.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Since buying the Dodgers, he has invested in European soccer, women’s hockey and basketball, squash and auto racing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Shortly after, he went on a real estate buying spree, snapping up six properties in Oklahoma, Florida, Utah and Hawaii.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Which was really just a convenient excuse for buying it for myself,” Saenko admitted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
I asked him, ‘Are desks actually buying and selling at that price?’
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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