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Example sentences for: acquire

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A Utility Maximizer wants to acquire many things, including cash, but also such things as trips to the beach, time to watch TV, adorable grandkids, and (probably most important in this case) professional prestige.
What AOL has done, he writes, is lower its credit rating, acquire thousands of journalists and movie executives not particularly gifted at making money, and transform itself from a sexy, fast-growing company into a dull, slow-moving one.
One popular theory compares Zionism's imperative to acquire land to the American idea of Manifest Destiny (that it was the United States' God-given right to rule from coast to coast).
The screen is not the only place--and probably not the most influential place--where young people acquire ideas of what is acceptable behavior.
Part of the context for considering broader strikes in the summer of 1999 was renewed worry about Bin Ladin's ambitions to acquire weapons of mass destruction.