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That is the structural line between a high-paying job and an acquirable enterprise.—
Tyler Chou,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2026 Imagine you are sat in that same room with the whiteboard, and mentally cross off those targets that are no longer acquirable — and read on below.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
17 June 2025 With no comparable bat expected to be acquirable, the bidding could get pricey with multiple contenders in need of third base help.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
22 July 2025 Aphantasiacs, whose inability to form mental imagery may be acquirable through stem-cell transplants, were found to be less susceptible to both the Ganzflicker pseudo-hallucination and to ghost stories.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper's Magazine,
20 July 2021 The exponentially growing volume of data would be nothing special, but with the ever-increasing abilities to collect it, at least in some regard, these newly acquirable volumes pose interesting answers to long-standing questions.—
Julius Černiauskas,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2022 This is an interesting choice considering quarterbacks like Jameis Winston and Kirk Cousins may have been available as well, with Winston being more easily acquirable via trade.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025