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obtain (come into the possession of something)

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acquire = obtain (get)

acquire = obtain (get)

acquire = obtain (get)

Overnight, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several times he went so far as to tell me what to do.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

acquired = obtained (came into possession of)

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

acquire = coming into the possession of

It was a habit he had acquired.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

acquired = came into the possession of

She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth

acquiring = obtaining

Thirty-four days later, I cried as I stuffed my collection of arts-and-crafts projects and the folders of schoolwork I had acquired into a small cardboard box.
Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy

acquired = obtained

The mischief is merely that each one has much too much power. A non-com, can torment a private, a lieutenant a non-com, a captain a lieutenant, until he goes mad. And because they know they can, they all soon acquire the habit more or less.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

acquire = get (pick up)

We are convinced that Jonas has the ability to acquire wisdom.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

acquire = obtain (come into possession of)

He was famous for shoplifting and his black-handled switchblade (which he couldn't have acquired without his first talent),
S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders

acquired = obtained (come into possession of)

a philosopher who should go deep enough to acquire the power would attain too lofty a wisdom to stoop to the exercise of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark

acquire = obtain (come into possession of)

Eddie and Morton ... fired the nozzles of their newly acquired flamethrowers and watched the huts ignite.
Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven

acquired = obtained (came into the possession of)

His painfully acquired armory of symptoms, catchwords, and diagnostic procedures is now to be put to use at last.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

acquired = obtained (came into possession of)

In that way, the name acquired a quasi-official status.
Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon

acquired = obtaining (coming into possession of)

I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

acquired = obtained (come into possession of)

I think that they can, and that they will acquire some wisdom.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

acquire = obtain (come into possession of)

We acquired no traumas from watching our father win or lose.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

acquired = picked up

In addition to Jem's newly developed characteristics, he had acquired a maddening air of wisdom.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

acquired = obtained (came into possession of)

"The fourth essential attribute," the Chief Elder said, "is wisdom."
Jonas has not yet acquired that.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

acquired = obtained (came into the possession of)

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