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Among his approaches were buying up Google search terms so families looking for information about criminal justice reform were directed to his website, using fill-in-the-blank templates for legal documents and outsourcing work to lawyers in developing countries who were paid about $10 an hour.—Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025 Institutional investors have bought up single-family homes in cash by the thousands, inflating prices and freezing out first-time buyers.—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025 While a piece of the English football cake has become the ultimate soft-power toy for the world’s billionaires over the past two decades, Scottish clubs are still being bought up in the real world — and by mere millionaires; ones who do a lot more research than Roman Roy did.—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 31 May 2025 Attendees can buy up to two zines at the event while supplies last.—Pitchfork, 28 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for buy up
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