Example Sentences

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When oil markets return, countries will be buying crude in surplus.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

More liquidity and clearer regulation have helped make prediction markets more appealing to institutions — that includes the ETF providers, as well as the institutions that will be buying and selling those products.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026

In fact, our squad—Nicole Nguyen, Joanna Stern, Ann-Marie Alcántara, Christopher Mims and Wilson Rothman—bought or will be buying many of these picks with our own money.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

We want to reach the people who will be buying tickets a year from now or five years from now, and all those people are on social media.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2023

“Someday, people will be buying these in antique shops, and they’ll have tiny computers that they carry around with them”—which I think he probably meant as a joke, except he didn’t laugh.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt