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Democrats released another plan earlier Tuesday to limit the ability of larger investors to buy up homes, just before the State of the Union.—Garrett Downs, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026 McCarthy moved to his current studio in 2012, and around then, bought land out in the Tehachapi Mountains to serve as Wild West backdrops, not unlike the early film studios buying up tumbleweed stables in Topanga to serve as facsimiles of one-horse towns to shoot westerns.—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026 Facebook owner Meta Platforms will buy artificial intelligence chips from Advanced Micro Devices in a deal that also will give it the opportunity to buy up to a 10% stake of the chip company.—Michelle Chapman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026 Drug traffickers moved into Cancún in the late 1990s, buying up mansions for themselves and using the secluded coasts of the state, Quintana Roo, to receive boatloads of Colombian cocaine.—Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 24 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for buy up