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  • Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort;   (source)
    acquire = obtain (come into possession of)
  • I determined to go into business at once, and not wait to acquire the usual capital, using such slender means as I had already got.   (source)
    acquire = come into possession of
  • 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
  • I knew I should prepare, try to acquire the high school education Tyler had told the university I had.†   (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)
  • Then Shoto emerged from the white house and told his brother via comlink that he'd acquired the Jade Key.†   (source)
  • Most business is done online; the Admiral is able to acquire about one retired jet a month.†   (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)
  • During the course of his travels, Chris had acquired a machete and a .30-06 rifle, and when Walt and Billie drove him down to Atlanta to enroll in college, he insisted on taking the big knife and the gun with him.†   (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)
  • She'd acquired the habit of talking to me as if I was the younger sister and she was the elder one; as if she had to spell things out for me.†   (source)
  • An unexpected result of my visit has been the opportunity to acquire one of these pups for my own family.†   (source)
  • I should have known better than to get involved with people who would name their cats after condiments, but common sense is an acquired trait.†   (source)
  • Somehow he'd acquired a large load of cans and groceries, probably by offering someone a small fortune.†   (source)
  • Their short torsos and long limbs were of the classical style preferred by the director, but their expressions had yet to acquire the aloofness of his more seasoned ballerinas.†   (source)
  • Mom had recently acquired her nursing license, and Bob made a great salary, so we had plenty of money.†   (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)
  • I've heard it's an acquired taste in animals.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Cedric Diggory came over to congratulate Harry on having acquired such a superb replacement for his Nimbus, and Percy's Ravenclaw girlfriend, Penelope Clearwater, asked if she could actually hold the Firebolt.†   (source)
  • Hublin says, "We are always acquiring, yes?†   (source)
  • It is true she is very pretty, but a man like myself can acquire any number of beautiful women.†   (source)
  • Still, I do not doubt that you will acquire even those, in time.†   (source)
  • BROADCASTING STATUS LISTENING FOR TELEMETRY SIGNAL ...LISTENING FOR TELEMETRY SIGNAL ...LISTENING FOR TELEMETRY SIGNAL SIGNAL ACQUIRED ...†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things.†   (source)
  • It's definitely an acquired skill.†   (source)
  • According to Lish, "countless" Gravesend Academy students had acquired fake draft cards in this fashion.†   (source)
  • Karen's cooking is an acquired taste, one that Six still hasn't acquired after four years.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Lindsey's stayed and acquired a sort of mythical place.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Once a scent had been acquired, the predator would attempt a slow silent approach, before the lightning strike.†   (source)
  • The government wasn't too fond of those who used government-acquired skills in ways the government didn't approve.†   (source)
  • One afternoon a woman a few seats away observed me looking at the change I had just acquired from paying for lunch.†   (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)
  • It requires no language skills or specifie body of acquired knowledge.†   (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)
  • You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.†   (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)
  • Anger grinned in the rearview mirror, showing off her newly acquired tooth.†   (source)
  • You each had a wooden chest with your name on it, which you kept under your bed and filled with your possessions—the stuff you acquired from the Sales or the Exchanges.†   (source)
  • He looked at me with dark brown eyes, sharp eyes, not the glazed-milk color some elderly acquire.†   (source)
  • Along with this, a human Rider would slowly acquire pointed ears, though they were never as prominent as an elf's.†   (source)
  • Capricorn's village had acquired some strange new inhabitants.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • After sixty years of losing children to the people 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 to have that community step back and hold itself at a distance—well, it could wear out even a Baby Suggs, holy.†   (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)
  • The fact that he had acquired a taste for that little appreciated delicacy known as chicken manure didn't help, either.†   (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)
  • After that it goes on to say that you must avoid the following things ...let's see ...'bathing during the hour of the rooster,' acquiring new clothing,' embarking on new enterprises,' and listen to this one, 'changing residences.'†   (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)
  • Dede's own romance with Jaimito acquired a glamorous, exciting edge with Lio and Minerva always by their side.†   (source)
  • Directly behind me, Tyler Crowley was in his recently acquired used Sentra, waving.†   (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)
  • I'm a bit of an acquired taste in that sense, and after only one semester, some were still noticeably wary of me.†   (source)
  • Acquires, dare we say, self-knowledge?†   (source)
  • It will take me approximately two minutes to acquire a sidearm.†   (source)
  • Ever since acquiring Holton's drugstore, he had been interested in the undeveloped land across the street.†   (source)
  • I would acquire, aim, and even do a simulated trigger pull, going through my rehearsed breathing and followthrough routine while picturing the actual engagement.†   (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 fine weather still held, and all three of them had acquired improbable autumn suntans.†   (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)
  • It was an art I had not yet acquired since I wasn't allowed to wear makeup.†   (source)
  • It seems to me that if it were possible for humans to acquire miraculous powers, there would be evidence.†   (source)
  • As words are gradually acquired, the child looks up and says "Bow-wow" every time it sees a dog.†   (source)
  • And so he could acquire cash at any moment and I could invest it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Information took many forms and both Leigh Anne and Sean had a talent for acquiring it.†   (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)
  • The kind we're using now is acquired.†   (source)
  • He had acquired his nickname from a tragedy that had cast its shadow over his life.†   (source)
  • I could see Axe was acquiring his targets quicker than I was because he had an extra scope.†   (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)
  • In-depth learners find that the acquired knowledge becomes a part of them.†   (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)
  • It also contained detailed observations and information, and he quite simply could not comprehend how she could have acquired such facts.†   (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)
  • Regardless, the ability we acquired in being able to talk with and be around adults has benefitted me greatly.†   (source)
  • Though Aberrations usually acquire their status due to an Infraction, they are protected; their identities aren't usually common knowledge.†   (source)
  • The smugglers have close contact with the Fremen and would've acquired such a device if it were available.†   (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)
  • Marcie wasn't the nicest person, and she'd acquired more than a handful of enemies.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Shukhov had finished his last pinch of tobacco and saw no prospects of acquiring any more before evening.†   (source)
  • You have to acquire it first.†   (source)
  • Inter-family communication must be an acquired skill.†   (source)
  • And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort.†   (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)
  • They lived just below Twenty-third Street, on the West Side, in a neighborhood that had lately acquired many Puerto Ricans.†   (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)
  • A life form had acquired Charles Monet as a host, and it was replicating.†   (source)
  • In 2008, Rath turned her cart into a stall, and then also acquired the stall next door.†   (source)
  • Venereum insontium—"innocently acquired" syphilis—was still in the textbooks, though Ghosh didn't believe in such a thing.†   (source)
  • So she told Eugenides that he must use his own cleverness if he was to acquire the attributes of the gods.†   (source)
  • And how do you acquire all this knowledge?†   (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)
  • This skill, like the perfect loss of an Extra Large Diet Zip, was acquired over time, with lots of practice.†   (source)
  • I cut, which I never did anywhere else, and here's my logic: Inigo and Fezzik have to go through 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 know what I mean, and I didn't want to risk, when the hook's building to climax, the reader's saying, 'Oh, thi†   (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)
  • Francisco was forced to sell the property he had acquired at Australia in order to finance his undertakings.†   (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)
  • At some point, the little girl had acquired Bear.†   (source)
  • Her three daytime black boys she acquires after more years of testing and rejecting thousands.†   (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)
  • Because we went into the hole acquiring an animal that was supposed to be the salvation of our show.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They targeted former slaves and any whites who supported the blacks' rights to vote, acquire land, or gain an education.†   (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)
  • Okay, "Acquired" means it's a disease that you can be infected with—that you get!†   (source)
  • I'm still acquiring it.†   (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)
  • It's designed to let you apply and build upon the skills you've been acquiring in the classroom.†   (source)
  • My sons, my friends, and I readily acquired a taste for the food.†   (source)
  • I think it is safe to say that I may add tennis to the long list of skills I shall not acquire.†   (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)
  • Lucien seemed to be acquiring the habit of stopping by each day, nosing around in the Hubbard matter, digging through the library, barging into Jake's office, offering opinions and advice, and pestering Roxy, who couldn't stand him.†   (source)
  • You've acquired a pet, archangel.†   (source)
  • Bilbo believed that she had acquired a good many of his spoons, while he was away on his former journey.†   (source)
  • It's an attitude easy for nonwhites to acquire in America.†   (source)
  • As for Hazel, he had acquired, in everyone's eyes, a kind of magical quality.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I acquired my first handgun when I was nineteen—from the man who was aiming it at my head.†   (source)
  • Kara walked to the rental car at a fast clip, newly acquired room keys in hand.†   (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 blade hungered for blood, but needed Ignatius's actions and strength to acquire it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Beanie would be proud of my newly acquired skills.†   (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)
  • Just don't beat up your gums at me," I said, throwing him a newly acquired phrase.†   (source)
  • How many hundreds of thousands of acres have been acquired by capital that's fled England and Italy and France?†   (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)
  • Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation.†   (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)
  • Celia saw her son age in these photographs, watched his mouth acquire his father's obstinate expression.†   (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)
  • You don't know how this Mark Yonts happened to acquire the factory?†   (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)
  • Eventually they acquired the name Maartens.†   (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)
  • Acquiring and naming a belief is an action in which everyone participates equally.†   (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)
  • I have Drew, and I seem to have acquired Clay somewhere along the way, but Josh is my escape.†   (source)
  • Now he just needed to acquire a target, preferably before it acquired him.†   (source)
  • One is to acquire a teacher.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He had acquired a cigar, and lighted it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The other States would insist on a part, arguing that the territory was acquired by joint efforts of the Confederacy.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Because he still hasn't acquired a sense of humor, he squints at me and says, "I certainly hope not."†   (source)
  • My cooking days are over, I thought a little sadly, and suddenly what I had formerly performed without thought, or even with impatience-the gathering of fuel, and the blowing of the fire, and the waxing of the flames under the steaming pot, with all the business of smoke down the lungs and in the eyes-acquired a sweet and piercing poignancy.†   (source)
  • Housekeeping, the Office division that acquired and maintained safe properties, was on good, if entirely deceptive, terms with the château's owner.†   (source)
  • My vision had acquired a longer range; it had deepened and broadened in my tenure at the school.†   (source)
  • Then she spoke to her, asked her what her name was, and how she had acquired the deep scar on her forehead.†   (source)
  • They walked back to their newly acquired tranporter and drove it back in the half light to Haystack Corner, and commenced the somewhat ghoulish task of stripping the dead bodies of the wrecked cars of anything that might be serviceable to the Ferrari.†   (source)
  • There is a kind of stupidity among drunks, particularly when they are sober, a kind of disconnection which the unobservant interpret as vagueness and which Leamas seemed to acquire with unnatural speed.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He was an old bird, reputed to be fifty years old, and he had lived a ribald life and acquired the vigorous speech of a ship's fo'c'sle.†   (source)
  • But I had acquired the potential for becoming anybody I chose.†   (source)
  • The salmon-hued walls seemed to acquire a wanton glow, and I vibrated with inward pleasure.†   (source)
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