as in accession
something added to an existing supply
every vacation trip inevitably resulted in new acquisitions to our array of bric-a-brac
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Recent Examples of acquisition
The Court found that our advertiser tools and our acquisitions, such as DoubleClick, don’t harm competition.
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Julie Coleman, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
This process has been used by the Pentagon to help speed up the acquisition of products for fighters in armed conflict zones.
—Christopher Bing, ProPublica, 17 Apr. 2025
The government took aim at an allegedly anticompetitive acquisition scheme employed by Google to monopolize the adverting market.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initially sued Meta in 2020, accusing the social media giant of seeking to eliminate competition and entrench its monopoly over personal social networking with its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
—Julia Shapero, The Hill, 16 Apr. 2025
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Julie Coleman, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
This process has been used by the Pentagon to help speed up the acquisition of products for fighters in armed conflict zones.
—Christopher Bing, ProPublica, 17 Apr. 2025
The government took aim at an allegedly anticompetitive acquisition scheme employed by Google to monopolize the adverting market.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initially sued Meta in 2020, accusing the social media giant of seeking to eliminate competition and entrench its monopoly over personal social networking with its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
—Julia Shapero, The Hill, 16 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for acquisition
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“Acquisition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acquisition. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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