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acquisitions

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plural of acquisition

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something added to an existing supply every vacation trip inevitably resulted in new acquisitions to our array of bric-a-brac

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Recent Examples of acquisitions Dubbed Maxscene, the new division will be based out of Atlanta and led by Antoinetta Stallings, the head of development and acquisitions at TPS. — Savannah Sicurella, AJC.com, 31 Aug. 2026 But that was before the injuries and the acquisitions and the slump. — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026 Taylor Farms has expanded its infrastructure through a string of acquisitions and investments, including its purchases of Earthbound Farm in 2019 and agricultural robotics company Farmwise in 2025. — Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 Meanwhile, on the sales front, Ito is getting ready to launch In My Father’s Room at San Sebastian, a festival that has become an important launchpad for the company’s productions and acquisitions. — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026 One of the acquisitions is a patent portfolio and hiring key talent from Overair, a spin-off of Karem Aircraft and backed by South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace, which shut down its Overair factories in Santa Ana last year. — Pat Maio, Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026 Tonight, the Red Sox get one of the better off-season acquisitions taking the ball. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026 Unlike most distributors, Kani abandoned contemporary acquisitions to dedicate itself entirely to repertory cinema. — José Salazar, IndieWire, 24 Aug. 2026 The New Capital-Allocation Discipline The era of free money encouraged companies to chase growth, acquisitions and financial engineering because cash carried enormous opportunity cost. — Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

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accessions

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Now, not in pots as houseplants but growing in the ground on prominent public display, there are more than 200 accessions representing 46 species.

— The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025

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