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as in develops
to come to have gradually
from years of working two jobs, he has acquired the ability to get by on only a few hours of sleep a day
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as in earns
to receive as return for effort
acquired a reputation for always arriving at his friends' house just as they were sitting down to dinner
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Recent Examples of acquires
Jon Hamm starts off voicing Mayor Jerry with two-faced smarm, but his performance acquires layers.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
The other serves as the president and CEO of Undue Medical Debt, the only nonprofit that acquires and erases medical debt for those most burdened.
—Allison Sesso, STAT, 20 Feb. 2026
The artist has moved on from solely using her own clothes and now acquires garments in a multitude of ways.
—Precious Adesina, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
Çatak’s anti-state message acquires an ambiguous power as the movie wends onward, with an enigmatic final shot that finds Aziz tasting clear-skies freedom but still from behind confines of a sort.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
Every team that acquires him understands that.
—Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2026
As with any time spent with those chasing a high, whether from intoxicants or pheromones, White’s play acquires momentum early on and the sense, when viewed at a distance, of watching something predictable play out.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2026
In the season finale, Tommy springs into action and acquires the leases to several of his son Cooper’s (Jacob Lofland) wells that struck oil.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2026
As the son falls out of an old relationship and into a new one, his moodiness acquires a new pathos—seemingly a symptom of the sheer pain of living rather than a response to any single misfortune.
—Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
The other serves as the president and CEO of Undue Medical Debt, the only nonprofit that acquires and erases medical debt for those most burdened.
—Allison Sesso, STAT, 20 Feb. 2026
The artist has moved on from solely using her own clothes and now acquires garments in a multitude of ways.
—Precious Adesina, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
Çatak’s anti-state message acquires an ambiguous power as the movie wends onward, with an enigmatic final shot that finds Aziz tasting clear-skies freedom but still from behind confines of a sort.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
Every team that acquires him understands that.
—Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2026
As with any time spent with those chasing a high, whether from intoxicants or pheromones, White’s play acquires momentum early on and the sense, when viewed at a distance, of watching something predictable play out.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2026
In the season finale, Tommy springs into action and acquires the leases to several of his son Cooper’s (Jacob Lofland) wells that struck oil.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2026
As the son falls out of an old relationship and into a new one, his moodiness acquires a new pathos—seemingly a symptom of the sheer pain of living rather than a response to any single misfortune.
—Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquires
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The press statement also highlighted the work by Mayo Clinic Platform, which develops new digital tools using artificial intelligence and patient records.—
Forum News Service,
Twin Cities,
9 Mar. 2026
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The robots look similar to food delivery robots or surveillance robots — which Daxbot also develops.—
Emily Holshouser,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Mar. 2026
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The top team earns automatic promotion to the fifth tier.—
Ryan Brennan
March 5,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Mar. 2026
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The winner of this matchup earns the seventh playoff seed.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
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Players can multiply non-jackpot wins up to 10 times when the jackpot is $150 million or less.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
7 Mar. 2026
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Schnabel’s cinematic canon includes Basquiat, Before Night Falls, and 4x Oscar nominated The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which earned the filmmaker a Best Director Oscar nom, and Best Director wins at the Cannes Film Festival, Golden Globes and Césars.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
6 Mar. 2026
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Perhaps some enterprising Democrat or Republican will come along who exhibits more faith in our constitutional system, governs with the foresight that there are more elections to come than just the next one — and reaps the benefits.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
11 Feb. 2026
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And if the hypotheticals are not enough to dissuade, history is littered with teams trading away their future for immediate glories, seeing their plans implode, and being left with a ruinous future that becomes a hopeless present while another team reaps the benefits.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Trump largely reiterated his red lines in the address, maintaining that the mission is necessary to ensure Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon.—
Zach LaChance,
The Washington Examiner,
1 Mar. 2026
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Before this hearing, a dependency investigator obtains medical records and interviews caregivers, babysitters, relatives, therapists, the kids themselves, and, ideally, the parents.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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When within one second of a rival at a detection point, a driver gains access to additional electrical deployment—up to 350 kW—giving them a temporary performance advantage.—
Brad Spurgeon,
Robb Report,
9 Mar. 2026
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And the subject of an investigation gains the power to control the flow of information.—
Vaughn Stewart,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Mar. 2026
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The cool-girl pair garners plenty of praise, and the kicker?—
Kyra Surgent,
InStyle,
7 Feb. 2026
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That doesn’t factor in the attention Cade Cunningham garners from defenders, which should generate open looks for Huerter.—
Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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For now, iSales is a 50-person team mostly based in Shanghai’s Pudong district, where Pan said the startup gets free office space courtesy of the local government, along with subsidies to use Chinese AI models.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
4 Mar. 2026
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The operation will curtail oil shipments from Iran to China, which gets 90 percent of its oil from Tehran.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Mar. 2026
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