Example Sentences

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Some investors had been buying the SpaceX-heavy Baron funds recently as a play on Musk’s company.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Tweedy, Browne provided a list of companies whose stocks were trading at trailing price/earnings ratios above 40 and that had been buying back shares over the preceding 12 months.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026

It was a Virginia-based peanut manufacturer that had been buying his cans for 30 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

Dr Gradel had been buying gemstones from sultan1966 on eBay for almost two years.

From BBC • May 27, 2024

That way I could prove if he had been buying art supplies or just testing out pens to buy a pen.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer