buy something
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“It’s hard to convince a consumer to buy something new if everything else is on sale,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
And she vowed only to buy something if she could afford to "buy it three times".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
She wasn’t a huge fan of Trump, she said, but she had wanted to buy something for her boyfriend.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
But we’ve all been in that situation where you buy something specifically for a recipe and have no clue what to do with the leftovers.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
Henry explained that it was easy to stop here on Fridays to buy something for his wife, a pair of earrings or a bracelet.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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