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Six example sentences with acquire, each labelled with its topic.
The company hopes to acquire the mapping firm before the summer, mainly for the road data it has collected.
Technology
The gallery could not acquire the sculpture outright, so it arranged a twenty-year loan from the artist's estate.
Art
You can acquire a decent knife for very little, but it will take a year to learn what it can do.
Cooking
The pension fund acquires shares slowly over months, since buying all at once would push the price against itself.
Finance
The team acquired a veteran point guard at the deadline for two second-round picks and a player nobody remembered.
Basketball
Players acquire the grappling hook halfway through, and every cliff they passed earlier suddenly becomes a shortcut.
Gaming
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