Example Sentences

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A newfound flexibility in the face of life’s normal challenges made me feel like I had acquired a superpower.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The Metro Board ultimately voted to reroute the line at significant additional cost, away from a corridor the agency had acquired for rail use decades earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

According to a Form 144 filing with the SEC, Van’t Hof had acquired those shares in March and May of 2024 as part of his compensation package.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

The streamer said last week it had acquired InterPositive, the AI start-up founded by Affleck.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

On the other side was Westinghouse Electric Company, with a bid to wire Jackson Park for alternating current, using patents that its founder, George Westinghouse, had acquired a few years earlier from Nikola Tesla.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson