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buying

  • present participle of buy.

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But when Anthropic shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, American companies realized that they hadn’t been buying a product from AI providers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

I’d already seen machine learning work well at ACNielsen in identifying and predicting consumer buying patterns, and I brought those tools to trading.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Leaving on a free will be far more lucrative in terms of wages to the attacker than leaving this summer, when the buying club has to find a transfer fee.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Seoul, which has led the rout in recent weeks, rose one percent with chip giants SK hynix and Samsung enjoying some much-needed buying interest.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Well, sure, when he put it like that, I could see that I was never going to become a preteen real estate mogul if I wasted earnings by renting rather than buying.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen