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Six example sentences with acquisitive, each labelled with its topic.
The museum's most acquisitive decade added four hundred paintings, many bought faster than the curators could catalog them.
Art
He describes an acquisitive middle class that measured its progress by the size of its garages.
Economics
Children go through an acquisitive phase around age four, hoarding pebbles and bottle caps in secret drawers.
Psychology
The acquisitive firm bought six rivals in three years and then spent the next five trying to make them fit together.
Business
The acquisitive merchant in the novel counts his warehouses each night and still goes to bed feeling he owns too little.
Literature
Acquisitive players fill every chest slot with loot they will never use, then complain the inventory is too small.
Gaming
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