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  • It was a habit he had acquired.   (source)
    acquired = came into the possession of
  • whilst he had endured much trouble in acquiring, he had but little in keeping.   (source)
    acquiring = coming into the possession of
  • In my mind, it acquired a kind of mystical power.†   (source)
  • But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.†   (source)
  • The important thing, the reason he and Mom had decided to acquire this particular piece of property, was that it came with plenty of land to build our new house.†   (source)
  • Most business is done online; the Admiral is able to acquire about one retired jet a month.†   (source)
  • Writing of his childhood in slavery, Frederick Douglass told of being acquired by a man whose wife was a tenderhearted woman who had never owned a slave.†   (source)
  • During the course of his travels, Chris had acquired a machete and a .†   (source)
  • Well, they do by now; they've had a try, if only to acquire sneering rights.†   (source)
  • An unexpected result of my visit has been the opportunity to acquire one of these pups for my own family.†   (source)
  • Not to be outdone, we acquired a stray dog and named it Jimmy.†   (source)
  • Somehow he'd acquired a large load of cans and groceries, probably by offering someone a small fortune.†   (source)
  • Where would Andrey be able to acquire three oranges on such short notice?†   (source)
  • Mom had recently acquired her nursing license, and Bob made a great salary, so we had plenty of money.†   (source)
  • As the night went on, the Sixers continued to acquire copies of the Crystal Key.†   (source)
  • I've heard it's an acquired taste in animals.†   (source)
  • The alliances the ASC acquired had formed a united front, and the United States's reputation was so damaged, no one wanted to readopt that name.†   (source)
  • These biological and psychosocial developments explain what is obvious to parents, teachers, and any adult who reflects on his or her own teenage years: Young teens lack the maturity, independence, and future orientation that adults have acquired.†   (source)
  • She had let me acquire a wand.†   (source)
  • Still, I do not doubt that you will acquire even those, in time.†   (source)
  • We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive.†   (source)
  • It is true she is very pretty, but a man like myself can acquire any number of beautiful women.†   (source)
  • He had since acquired a business partner, Ginger Pete, offering personal training to clients over a forty-mile area, and two liveried vans on credit.†   (source)
  • He was not told how to get to the Monk Building, for example, and had found it necessary to ask directions to the nearest bus stop, acquire a schedule from a dishonest bus driver who tried to trick him into paying for it, and walk several blocks to catch the Third Street bus.†   (source)
  • In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things.†   (source)
  • I could have offered to pose with my most recently acquired historic relic—the dagger that Prince Yussupov used when he murdered Rasputin.†   (source)
  • Specimen acquired on the beach of Cabo Blanco, July 16…… Apparently a howler monkey was eating the animal, and this was all that was recovered.†   (source)
  • One afternoon a woman a few seats away observed me looking at the change I had just acquired from paying for lunch.†   (source)
  • Because of this raid, Alhaji acquired the name "Little Rambo," and he did all he could in other raids to live up to that name.†   (source)
  • Whoever acquired any real or substantive intelligence from reading newspapers?†   (source)
  • Hublin says, "We are always acquiring, yes?†   (source)
  • An old man, with a breastplate of gold, wouldn't have lied just to acquire six sheep.†   (source)
  • Pattie has Quang-ha immediately take down the garbage to the Dumpster because the kitchen is a trash-free zone now We all help clean up and put away the leftovers, and then we make ourselves at home on the newly acquired, used furniture.†   (source)
  • But by now I no longer needed this vivid false identity; now I was acquiring, I felt, a sense of my own real authority and worth, I had had many new experiences and I was growing up.†   (source)
  • The whole statue had acquired around its northerly surfaces a bluish-green patina, so that from certain approaches, and in low light, the muscle-bound Triton really seemed a hundred leagues under the sea.†   (source)
  • LISTENING FOR TELEMETRY SIGNAL SIGNAL ACQUIRED ….†   (source)
  • In one hand I clutch a small brown suitcase that, excepting the cross, contains everything I have in the world, all newly acquired: a bible, two sets of clothes, a hat, a black coat several sizes too small, a pair of shoes.†   (source)
  • Lindsey's stayed and acquired a sort of mythical place.†   (source)
  • It requires no language skills or specifie body of acquired knowledge.†   (source)
  • The singer had broken several ribs, his woodharp, and all four fingers on his playing hand, yet the day had not been an utter loss to him; somewhere he had acquired a magnificent shadowskin cloak, thick black fur slashed by stripes of white.†   (source)
  • They have attempted to acquire learning, they have attempted to acquire style and social graces, but in most respects the modern Vogon is little different from his primitive forebears.†   (source)
  • Karen's cooking is an acquired taste, one that Six still hasn't acquired after four years.†   (source)
  • A year I was still chewing this over—this figure meant my dad had acquired the car (and Xandra) before he'd disappeared—when I looked up and saw that the strip malls had given way to an endless-seeming grid of small stucco homes.†   (source)
  • You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.†   (source)
  • Eventually they acquired the name Maartens.†   (source)
  • Once a scent had been acquired, the predator would attempt a slow silent approach, before the lightning strike.†   (source)
  • Immigrants who return to their home countries also bring skills acquired while living in a more technologically advanced country, says Norberto Giron of the International Organization for Migration in Honduras.†   (source)
  • The fine weather still held, and all three of them had acquired improbable autumn suntans.†   (source)
  • The government wasn't too fond of those who used government-acquired skills in ways the government didn't approve.†   (source)
  • It was an art I had not yet acquired since I wasn't allowed to wear makeup.†   (source)
  • Along with this, a human Rider would slowly acquire pointed ears, though they were never as prominent as an elf's.†   (source)
  • To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.†   (source)
  • The irony was, her mother was actually proud she had taught herself English, the choppy talk she had acquired in China and Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Even after the Ousters acquired the Hawking drive, it remained official Hegemony policy to ignore them as long as their swarms stayed in the darkness between the stars and limited their in-system plunderings to scooping small amounts of hydrogen from gas giants and water ice from uninhabited moons.†   (source)
  • Directly behind me, Tyler Crowley was in his recently acquired used Sentra, waving.†   (source)
  • Information took many forms and both Leigh Anne and Sean had a talent for acquiring it.†   (source)
  • I could see Axe was acquiring his targets quicker than I was because he had an extra scope.†   (source)
  • Ever since acquiring Holton's drugstore, he had been interested in the undeveloped land across the street.†   (source)
  • Acquires, dare we say, self-knowledge?†   (source)
  • Clear thinking requires a command of the English language, and fifth grade is the ideal time for every girl and boy to acquire an expanded vocabulary.†   (source)
  • Once a week we take a series of meetings with these guys, Ty-wannabes, and they try to convince us that we need to acquire them.†   (source)
  • …who chewed up her life and spit it out like a fish bone; after five years of freedom given to her by her last child, who bought her future with his, exchanged it, so to speak, so she could have one whether he did or not--to lose him too; to acquire a daughter and grandchildren and see that daughter slay the children (or try to); to belong to a community of other free Negroes--to love and be loved by them, to counsel and be counseled, protect and be protected, feed and be fed--and then…†   (source)
  • Quentin and I still weren't quite ready to work the equations for a De Laval nozzle in my book, but I got the machinists working, instead, on a new nozzle with deeper countersink cuts, hoping we might acquire at least some of the attributes of the converging-diverging design.†   (source)
  • They've had centuries to amass fortunes, acquire property, build armies ….†   (source)
  • The kind we're using now is acquired.†   (source)
  • Fast food is now so commonplace that it has acquired an air of inevitability, as though it were somehow unavoidable, a fact of modern life.†   (source)
  • Though she has acquired a taste for classical music over the years—"it's like learning to appreciate a stinky cheese"—she's been a not-always-delighted captive audience for many of my marathon rehearsals.†   (source)
  • There is no absolute peril except for him who abandons himself; there is no complete death except for him who acquires a taste for dying.†   (source)
  • Of course I would merely go down the street somewhere and smoke—a new habit, the smoking, acquired late in life—though I did it only when I was angry.†   (source)
  • You have to acquire it first.†   (source)
  • It seems to me that if it were possible for humans to acquire miraculous powers, there would be evidence.†   (source)
  • Capricorn's village had acquired some strange new inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background of wherever he was—into bookshelves, gardens, curtains, doorways, streets—to appear inanimate, almost invisible to the untrained eye.†   (source)
  • "It was the fastest way I could think of to acquire a sizeable number of allies in a short period of time," said Luke, without any regret in his tone, though without any pride either.†   (source)
  • Those 'great' butlers like Mr Marshall who have it, I am sure, acquired it over many years of self-training and the careful absorbing of experience.†   (source)
  • I'm a bit of an acquired taste in that sense, and after only one semester, some were still noticeably wary of me.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately the earliest news passed on by people who had acquired accumulators and got their radio sets back in working order did not confirm Father's optimism.†   (source)
  • "I can see now," confessed Mack, "that I spend most of my time and energy trying to acquire what I have determined to be good, whether it's financial security or health or retirement or whatever.†   (source)
  • Though Aberrations usually acquire their status due to an Infraction, they are protected; their identities aren't usually common knowledge.†   (source)
  • After realizing that I could neither make a string nor acquire a new one, I sat back down and began to learn to play with only six strings.†   (source)
  • He looked at me with dark brown eyes, sharp eyes, not the glazed-milk color some elderly acquire.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino put double padlocks on the window frames, secured the doors on the inside with iron crossbars, placed his most valuable possessions in the strongbox, and belatedly acquired the wartime habit of sleeping with a revolver under his pillow.†   (source)
  • The smugglers have close contact with the Fremen and would've acquired such a device if it were available.†   (source)
  • In-depth learners find that the acquired knowledge becomes a part of them.†   (source)
  • The bulk of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is concerned with how this a priori knowledge is acquired and how it is employed.†   (source)
  • The fact that he had acquired a taste for that little appreciated delicacy known as chicken manure didn't help, either.†   (source)
  • With his savings he acquired a printing press, a box camera, and a damp, low-ceilinged office in the rear of a fish-processing warehouse.†   (source)
  • As words are gradually acquired, the child looks up and says "Bow-wow" every time it sees a dog.†   (source)
  • Among the younger Nigerians Nadia acquired a bit of a special status, perhaps because they saw her with their elders, or perhaps because of her black robe, and so the younger Nigerian men and women and the older Nigerian boys and girls, the ones who often had quick jibes to make about many of the others in the house, rarely said anything of that nature to her, or about her, at least in her presence.†   (source)
  • You owe the okiya even for the money it cost to acquire you.†   (source)
  • I'm still acquiring it.†   (source)
  • Dede's own romance with Jaimito acquired a glamorous, exciting edge with Lio and Minerva always by their side.†   (source)
  • Their Frigidaire was always stocked with newly acquired pieces of ham, half roasts and quartered chickens.†   (source)
  • Farmer had acquired, partly through Virchow, a moral understanding of public health.†   (source)
  • It also contained detailed observations and information, and he quite simply could not comprehend how she could have acquired such facts.†   (source)
  • It's an attitude easy for nonwhites to acquire in America.†   (source)
  • And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort.†   (source)
  • …a certain amount of derring-do in order to come up with the proper ingredients for the resurrection pill, stuff like Inigo finding some frog dust while Fezzik is off after holocaust mud, this latter, for example, requiring, first, Fezzik's acquiring a holocaust cloak Jo he doesn't burn to death gathering the mud, etc. Well, it's my conviction that this is the same kind of thing as the Wizard of Oz sending Dorothy's friends to the wicked witch's castle; it's got the same feel,' ifyou…†   (source)
  • Shukhov had finished his last pinch of tobacco and saw no prospects of acquiring any more before evening.†   (source)
  • Marcie wasn't the nicest person, and she'd acquired more than a handful of enemies.†   (source)
  • Gradually, as the cleaning party progressed from the basement to the second-floor bedrooms where Nancy and her mother had been murdered in their beds, they acquired additional fuel for the impending fire-blood-soiled bedclothes, mattresses, a bedside rug, a Teddy-bear doll.†   (source)
  • It's definitely an acquired skill.†   (source)
  • My sons, my friends, and I readily acquired a taste for the food.†   (source)
  • They lived just below Twenty-third Street, on the West Side, in a neighborhood that had lately acquired many Puerto Ricans.†   (source)
  • Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation.†   (source)
  • Because we went into the hole acquiring an animal that was supposed to be the salvation of our show.†   (source)
  • Inter-family communication must be an acquired skill.†   (source)
  • Her three daytime black boys she acquires after more years of testing and rejecting thousands.†   (source)
  • A life form had acquired Charles Monet as a host, and it was replicating.†   (source)
  • It was a bluff—Luma hoped the Y would put as much energy into taking goals away from Indian Creek as they had into acquiring them.†   (source)
  • As for Hazel, he had acquired, in everyone's eyes, a kind of magical quality.†   (source)
  • If one of the skills is not acquired, subsequent skills will be very difficult to master and the fencer will be at a permanent and serious disadvantage:' "Okay, I'll remember," I said.†   (source)
  • "The thing about Ebb Tide," it continued, "is that they're really an acquired taste."†   (source)
  • Francisco was forced to sell the property he had acquired at Australia in order to finance his undertakings.†   (source)
  • They targeted former slaves and any whites who supported the blacks' rights to vote, acquire land, or gain an education.†   (source)
  • This process included purging any contraband they might have, acquiring new stuff at commissary, and loading them up with snacks and messages to carry to women who were doing time down the hill.†   (source)
  • So she told Eugenides that he must use his own cleverness if he was to acquire the attributes of the gods.†   (source)
  • If we have not yet acquired him then, we will cross over to the southeast corner of the square and work our way in to the center.†   (source)
  • That didn't mean she was in the habit of thinking about herself as a sporting woman, but it was precisely that habit that Tinkersley expected her to acquire.†   (source)
  • In 2008, Rath turned her cart into a stall, and then also acquired the stall next door.†   (source)
  • When a lion acquires a lioness with cubs, he kills them.†   (source)
  • I think it is safe to say that I may add tennis to the long list of skills I shall not acquire.†   (source)
  • Now he just needed to acquire a target, preferably before it acquired him.†   (source)
  • He summoned his son Twaha, who had traveled down to Skardu often enough to acquire a smattering of Western vocabulary, and instructed him to translate.†   (source)
  • At some point, the little girl had acquired Bear.†   (source)
  • In March of 1942 the Navy Department radically increased its size by acquiring the adjoining 130,000-acre Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores.†   (source)
  • The careless owner hardly noticed it, and for some years it languished on the shelves, acquiring a pattern of mildew across the cover.†   (source)
  • I have Drew, and I seem to have acquired Clay somewhere along the way, but Josh is my escape.†   (source)
  • Bilbo believed that she had acquired a good many of his spoons, while he was away on his former journey.†   (source)
  • I note that Mrs. Kato, who was born in Japan, returned to that country and it would seem evident that she has accordingly relinquished any claim to Canadian domicile which she might previously have acquired.†   (source)
  • And so he could acquire cash at any moment and I could invest it.†   (source)
  • He had acquired his nickname from a tragedy that had cast its shadow over his life.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart did not know if he owned the house or rented it, from whom he had acquired it or how much, if anything, it was costing.†   (source)
  • She kept her voice low, not out of deference for my newly acquired higher status but at a timbre that seemed tamped down by fear.†   (source)
  • All he knows is that his suspicion that he lacks prerequisite knowledge and acquired poise is metastasizing as he squints into the early morning sun, unable to fall back to sleep.†   (source)
  • The blade hungered for blood, but needed Ignatius's actions and strength to acquire it.†   (source)
  • "Understanding comes with life," he answered, "as a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people—sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having a sympathy for people," he said.†   (source)
  • Leaving the hotel for his Hat (which by now had acquired table, chairs, couch, and carpet), he thought happily that he carried his way of living with him as a snail carries his house.†   (source)
  • And how do you acquire all this knowledge?†   (source)
  • Venereum insontium—"innocently acquired" syphilis—was still in the textbooks, though Ghosh didn't believe in such a thing.†   (source)
  • We "acquired" a wicked-cool laptop when we escaped from the Itex headquarters, and get this-it has permanent satellite linkup, so we're always online.†   (source)
  • Kara walked to the rental car at a fast clip, newly acquired room keys in hand.†   (source)
  • One is to acquire a teacher.†   (source)
  • His father had acquired the land by dubious means back in the 1930s.†   (source)
  • Acquiring and naming a belief is an action in which everyone participates equally.†   (source)
  • It will take me approximately two minutes to acquire a sidearm.†   (source)
  • Just don't beat up your gums at me," I said, throwing him a newly acquired phrase.†   (source)
  • He had made his career in the Commons and, with his affable manner, had acquired few if any enemies among his political opponents.†   (source)
  • I acquired my first handgun when I was nineteen—from the man who was aiming it at my head.†   (source)
  • The firms you acquire represent sources of supply, often in the same markets, and you subsequently determine prices between former competitors.†   (source)
  • I told myself I was crying for the waste of it; that those fingers that had acquired so much skill would never fashion another lovely thing.†   (source)
  • Celia saw her son age in these photographs, watched his mouth acquire his father's obstinate expression.†   (source)
  • Oh, very profitable, Joseph, absolutely uncanny at recognizing cutting-edge technology in start-up companies and then acquiring them—or backing entrepreneurs who need cash to develop their ideas.†   (source)
  • It's designed to let you apply and build upon the skills you've been acquiring in the classroom.†   (source)
  • Regardless, the ability we acquired in being able to talk with and be around adults has benefitted me greatly.†   (source)
  • Romance, on the other hand, dilates upon their piety and heroism, and portrays, in her most glowing and impassioned hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity.†   (source)
  • "You've acquired a pet, archangel.†   (source)
  • You don't know how this Mark Yonts happened to acquire the factory?†   (source)
  • The Indian employees are mostly college-educated and take pains, if not to sound American, to adopt certain American idioms and catchphrases acquired from watching TV sitcoms.†   (source)
  • My vision had acquired a longer range; it had deepened and broadened in my tenure at the school.†   (source)
  • It was practiced in war, as a payment for debts and crimes, and, if it could be arranged, as a way to acquire men's lands, animals, or women.†   (source)
  • He was only a councilman, but as Jenkins told us our efforts were already acquiring the shape of a campaign, a full-blown interborough enterprise.†   (source)
  • Beanie would be proud of my newly acquired skills.†   (source)
  • And they'll continue to fail, because they lack naval bases in the Mediterranean, and probably would not choose war in Europe for the sake of acquiring colonies.†   (source)
  • Then she spoke to her, asked her what her name was, and how she had acquired the deep scar on her forehead.†   (source)
  • Everything went on as before, and Douglas went on being Douglas O'Brian—although, since Abby developed a habit of calling him "my little stem," he did acquire a nickname.†   (source)
  • Because he still hasn't acquired a sense of humor, he squints at me and says, "I certainly hope not."†   (source)
  • The other States would insist on a part, arguing that the territory was acquired by joint efforts of the Confederacy.†   (source)
  • Okay, "Acquired" means it's a disease that you can be infected with—that you get!†   (source)
  • The vision of flying teeth was acquiring details.†   (source)
  • " Mrs. Poole lit her cigarette and breathed in, one eye twitching slighdy, a tick she'd recently acquired to replace the memory she was beginning to lose.†   (source)
  • In addition, he chooses clothes of bright clashing colors that he seems to have chosen deliberately to not match (though they say that he acquired this practice during his stay in America).†   (source)
  • Fortuitously, Pa had acquired a union card during the construction of a plant in Marshall, Texas, where he worked for a few months shortly after the war.†   (source)
  • After Derek had "acquired" Ben, we'd spent the rest of the day together—up until the point when I'd had to go to Derek's room to get some sleep.†   (source)
  • So Mike started with "free will" and acquired more as he was added to and as he learned—and don't ask me to define "free will."†   (source)
  • This kind of knowledge could be acquired only on the job; few people went to school to learn how to work in a factory.†   (source)
  • Housekeeping, the Office division that acquired and maintained safe properties, was on good, if entirely deceptive, terms with the château's owner.†   (source)
  • He had acquired a cigar, and lighted it.†   (source)
  • Those members of the staff who had not had the opportunity to acquire even quasi-military status were reduced to the expedient of inventing suitable ranks — field ranks if they were senior men, and subaltern ranks for the juniors.†   (source)
  • In the convent school, she'd not only acquired this English name, Theresa, she'd also taken up baseball — with her father's permission — so that now she strolled when she walked, sometimes with her hands in her pockets.†   (source)
  • He counted his steps along the dirt path, concentrating on the numbers, pretending that the steps were dollar bills and that each step through the night made him richer and richer, so that soon he would become a wealthy man, and he kept counting, considering the ways he might spend the wealth, what he would buy and do and acquire and own.†   (source)
  • When he approached the altar, he saw that the frontal piece—no doubt given by some small town church that had acquired a new one—was propped up on old crates.†   (source)
  • Randy knocked and Missouri, looking almost svelte in a newly acquired waistline, opened the door.†   (source)
  • George wondered whether to commiserate with Jan for his newly acquired relative.†   (source)
  • He and most of the crew settled near L.A.; and for the rest of his life he did little more than acquire wealth.†   (source)
  • The salmon-hued walls seemed to acquire a wanton glow, and I vibrated with inward pleasure.†   (source)
  • KELLER acquires the suitcase, and ANNIE gets her hands on it too, though still endeavoring to live up to the general air of propertied manners.†   (source)
  • But I had acquired the potential for becoming anybody I chose.†   (source)
  • Afraid, his recently-acquired confidence quite drained away, he reached for his sister's hand.†   (source)
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