acquire
verb (used with object)
to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own.
had acquired
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past perfectof acquire.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By Sunday afternoon, the rumor had acquired its supposed smoking gun.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
Director Tran Trung Thanh told AFP the state institution had acquired and developed "a world-first process for handling remains that have undergone severe degradation".
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Equipment rental house Cinelease recently announced that it had acquired Quixote’s grip and lighting and production supplies assets in Los Angeles and New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Shamrock and Flexpoint Ford bought Podium from private-equity firm Presidio Investors, which had acquired the publisher in 2019.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
William Levitt regarded the land he had acquired as frozen in time, belonging to a previous century, and marveled that such a backwater existed in the corridor between New York and Philadelphia.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
