acquires
- present tense form of acquire (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The organization acquires medical debt in bulk from hospitals, physician groups, collection agencies and other groups for a fraction of the cost.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
And yet invisibility makes that power easier to expand because citizens stop feeling the intrusion even while the state acquires increasingly intimate access to ordinary life.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
Pianists have to stay on the job, maintaining composure and surmounting anxieties, so that their work acquires the necessary finish.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
"This brings us closer to answering deep, fundamental questions about how matter acquires mass, as well as how the vacuum structure changes inside atomic nuclei."
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
When one person secretly acquires more food than the others have there is an inequality of food distribution in the community.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
