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acquire
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Love Medicine
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- His great-grandson, King Junior, was happy because he hadn't yet acquired a memory, while perhaps Grandpa's happiness was in losing his.†
p. 20.2acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
- Having a name some people thought of as feminine had turned Beverly Lamartine to acquiring nicknames and building up his muscles—they still bulged, hard as ingots in some places, now lost in others.†
p. 102.4acquiring = obtaining (coming into possession of)
- She also saw how the tattoos he and Henry had acquired on their arms, and which Lulu had always admired, were now deep black and so fuzzy around the edges that she could hardly tell what they were.†
p. 102.7acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
- The boy seemed to have acquired the staredown technique naturally.†
p. 113.2
- Weapons were stashed everywhere and easy to acquire.†
p. 206.7
- I know it's something that you got to acquire, but I never known where from.†
p. 236.2
- She fought Old Lady Blue at the mission bundle sales to acquire a Stetson practically new except for a burnt hole through the crown.†
p. 304.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)