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Example sentences for: buys

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I'll take the rumpled editor who takes a bet on a Lorrie Moore and sticks with her until the breakout book--and maybe buys the time by signing up a decent cookbook.
If every enthusiastic reader of Patrick O'Brian buys a copy of this book, it will be a best-seller.
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Of course, Woody Allen captured this idea perfectly in Bananas , in the scene where he buys a pile of intellectual journals, and tries to slip a copy of a pornographic magazine in with them, only to have the shop owner holler, "Hey Harry, how much for a copy of Orgasm ?" Later, Allen sits on the subway, gazing at the offending item, which he has neatly tucked into the latest edition of Commentary , with an article by Irving Kristol on the cover (another favorite Woody Allen line, of course, comes in Annie Hall , when he quips that Dissent and Commentary have merged to form a new magazine called Dysentery-- I was probably one of the few 11-year-olds to laugh at that one).
Normally, when one of three big players in an industry buys one of its two competitors, you hear rumblings about possible antitrust violations and the deleterious effects of lack of competition.