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Recent Examples of acquirable 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 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 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 The few legally acquirable weapons, mostly hunting rifles, can only be purchased after a screening and a training process so onerous that Japan has one of the world’s lowest firearm ownership rates: one gun per every 330 residents. Max Fisher, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022 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 So, the biggest resource we‘re going to need for survival, and the most abundant resource that’s acquirable — our fellow man — is the one resource most preppers are not preparing to acquire. Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021 Lauren could perhaps be compared to the fictional Jay Gatsby: another American dream-maker striving to create an impeccable world out of acquirable things. The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquirable
Adjective
  • Pink Floyd Claims 10% of the Chart The band fills four spaces on the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart this frame, claiming 10% of all available real estate.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Anthropic said many of these integrations are available on Tuesday, with more to come.
    Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • Policymakers and government officials need to make education more accessible, expand job opportunities and allow housing to become affordable in order to mitigate conditions that foster violence.
    Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
  • As for the rooms, there are four accessible cabins and suites that vary in size.
    Jess Feldman, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2025

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“Acquirable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acquirable. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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