bought
Americanverb
adjective
verb
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of bought
First recorded before 900, for the adjective for an earlier sense
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EMR has advised travellers to use alternative routes over the weekend, saying tickets that had already been bought could be used at no extra cost to travel with other operators.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026
After leasing the property for years, Fallas bought the building in the 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026
His firm regularly bought SpaceX stock, packaged it into investment funds and then charged fees to investors who bought pieces of those funds.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026
If you bought it the day before the disaster, your money has doubled.
From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026
She’d seemed dubious, because even the description had upset me, but she went back to the store and bought the entire series in hardcover.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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