Example Sentences

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Large health systems have been acquiring physician practices and funneling commercially insured patients into their hospitals, Whaley said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

I think it can be used to describe how American studios and networks have been acquiring South Korean and other content from East Asia to adapt for audiences in the United States.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2021

In Master Harold the dances are different: he and co-star Lucian Msamati have been acquiring ballroom skills.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2019

Humans have been acquiring animals to display wealth and get attention for centuries, but often those animals are spectacles, like peacocks or pythons.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2019

When I should have been acquiring the higher culture, I was either playing hookey or planting hogs.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper