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Recent Examples of purchaserAs the largest institutional purchaser of firearms in the United States, governments have tremendous power to shape the market.—
Kris Brown,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Aug. 2026 If two reports carry the same meaning, are held to the same standard and are described in the same language, then a careful purchaser would be almost irresponsible not to choose the cheaper one.—
Amir Tarighat,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2026 In the pharmaceutical and biotech sector (as in many other sectors), the Chinese state operates simultaneously as owner, lender, regulator, purchaser, land allocator, and strategic investor.—
Paul Friedrichs,
STAT,
30 July 2026 Venezuela is also the largest purchaser of Chinese military equipment in Latin America.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
25 June 2026 World Liberty is embroiled in litigation with Justin Sun, a crypto investor who was a major early purchaser of WLFI tokens, over his allegations that World Liberty has quietly prevented him from selling his tokens.—
Matt Peterson,
CNBC,
9 June 2026 But the purchaser may offer some employees a position, the report added.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
3 June 2026 Social scientists have been working on consumer behavior and trying to understand the purchaser’s decision process.—
Ezgi Eyüboğlu,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 May 2026 Sellers can opt to defer such work to the buyer and each party puts $2,500 in a city escrow account to be used by the purchaser to come into compliance.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
The veteran buyer and merchandising chief, who joined retail giant Boyner last year to develop the Communité concept after a long career at Beyman, was weaned on luxury but had a field day scouting new brands, about 60 percent of them new to Turkey.
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Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2026
Buyers who rolled that old debt into a new-car loan are projected to pay $16,270 in interest over the life of it — nearly $6,500 more than the average new-car buyer.
The product tracks sleep patterns and measures users’ quality of rest.
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Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2026
But for the users of AI models and services, it's created complexity and chaos as CEOs and IT managers spend an outsized amount of time and resources comparing costs and capabilities to avoid getting left behind.