to buy up
to buy up
/bˈaɪ ˈʌp/
verbClick to see examples
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He bought up sixteen point five percent of the company and demanded a seat on the board.
And the U.S. counts on China to buy up its debt.
But big money, global investors didn't want to just buy up my mortgage, and Stan's mortgage.
to collect
to collect
/kəˈɫɛkt/
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CSIs might even vacuum the entire area to collect tiny samples.
They carefully label each piece of evidence as they collect it.
Scientists decided to collect many examples of brains.
to scrape
to scrape
/ˈskɹeɪp/
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[scraping] See that sound?
It goes through a laborious process of having every last hair scraped off.
First, he scrapes the hide while it's wet to remove excess moisture.
to amass
to amass
/əˈmæs/
verbClick to see examples
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OG Hummer fan Schwarzenegger quickly amassed a fleet of the war wagons.
BTS amassed their fortune through their music, album sales, concerts, merchandise, and brand deals.
Put your energy into amassing a great deal of wealth.
to accumulate
to accumulate
/əkˈjumjəˌɫeɪt/
verbClick to see examples
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But I have accumulated just a couple of new things
Our shoppers can earn and accumulate gold points and then convert that into cash through gift cards.
Their DNA slowly changes from generation to generation and differences accumulate.
to hoard
to hoard
/ˈhɔɹd/
verbClick to see examples
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Initially, consumers hoarded items like rice, beans and frozen foods.
Economists feared savers would hoard cash rather than pay the bank to hold it.
And I'm hoarding food and water while you're starving...
to obtain
to obtain
/əbˈteɪn/
verbClick to see examples
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Rain filled lakes and rivers where they could obtain water to drink and catch fish to eat.
It would prohibit members and employees of Congress from profiting on nonpublic information they obtained in their official roles.
It later came out in a lawsuit that Nikola intended to obtain this breakthrough technology by acquiring battery company ZapGo.
to gain
to gain
/ˈɡeɪn/
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I don't know if it's really gained in size.
So we're going to set up our 3:1 mechanical advantage just to gain a little bit of force.
And the internet was rapidly gaining users.
to derive
to derive
/dɝˈaɪv/
verbClick to see examples
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The island derives its name from its Easter day discovery by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen in 1722.
So these are the basic goods, and from them, we can derive the natural laws.
Unfortunately, presidents don’t derive their powers from the sun, like Superman.
to acquire
to acquire
/əˈkwaɪɝ/
verbClick to see examples
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Second, uniforms encourage members of a group to acquire a sense of unity and pride.
Narrator: Apollo acquired Chuck E. Cheese Entertainment in a leveraged buyout for about a billion dollars.
It's captured, it's acquired from interacting with people. -
to earn
to earn
/ˈɝn/
verbClick to see examples
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They saw many ways to earn money in a city.
They were first narcissistic and were then drawn to careers that would earn them admiration from others.
They want to earn their own money.
finesse
finesse
/fɪˈnɛs/
nounClick to see examples
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Izzy stated of what he called his “Einstein Theory of Rum Snooping”, It takes a little finesse.
- It's amazing how much finesse you can get out a chainsaw.
I mean, again, because there's no finesse.
to harvest
to harvest
/ˈhɑɹvəst/
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Burning biogas to make electricity is a way to harvest those gases before they enter the atmosphere.
And they're easy to grow and harvest in man-made ponds, using less land than plants.
She starts by stripping down the straw harvested from the toquilla palm plant.
to inherit
to inherit
/ˌɪnˈhɛɹət/
verbClick to see examples
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There is strong agreement that genes, the carriers of inherited traits, play a role in autism.
But it seems this other relation has inherited his whole fortune.
Perhaps you would like to know how much you've inherited?
to receive
to receive
/ɹəˈsiv/, /ɹiˈsiv/, /ɹɪˈsiv/
verbClick to see examples
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The brain not only gives signals to the missing arm, it receives them as well.
Mail he receives from his political party is addressed to Mr. James Wilson.
If plants cannot grow straight up, they receive less benefit from the sunlight.
to reclaim
to reclaim
/ɹiˈkɫeɪm/
verbClick to see examples
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Overall, a lion portion of our water is reclaimed.
Nature reclaimed entire cities, and historians are left to scratch their heads.
You will reclaim your time.
to source
to source
/ˈsɔɹs/
verbClick to see examples
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Artisans here at Nils Olsson Dalahästar start with locally sourced pine or alderwood.
It sources pineapple waste from a nearby processing plant.
Although sourcing salt isn't quite so hard these days, the tradition of salt making still remains.
to wrest
to wrest
/ˈɹɛst/
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He was wresting with the challenge of connecting to his global team.
And I could tell you, the few times when I got shiny object that just wrested me so much
to fetch
to fetch
/ˈfɛtʃ/
verbClick to see examples
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Shall I fetch him?' '
Put away the lesson-books and fetch the supper-trays!'
Then she went next door to fetch another servant.
heir
heir
/ˈɛɹ/
nounClick to see examples
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You can also skip the tax entirely if you pass that appreciated portfolio onto your heir when you die.
He was the heir apparent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
“The only way he can fix the problems in his life is that this has to be his heir.
recipient
recipient
/ɹəˈsɪpiənt/, /ɹɪˈsɪpiənt/
nounClick to see examples
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So who's the biggest recipient of federal dollars?
Meanwhile, the recipient prepares for the transplant.
Some pig organs, especially their kidneys, are already about the right size for human recipients.
addressee
addressee
/ˌædɹɛˈsi/
nounClick to see examples
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Step three: addressing the addressee.
to win back
to win back
/wˈɪn bˈæk/
verbClick to see examples
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But Saladin wanted to make Nuradin's dream of winning back the Holy Land come true.
The tale ends: “And so Thor, son of Odin, won back his hammer.”
However, in an example of supreme oratorical skill, Pericles managed to win back the public.
acquisition
acquisition
/ˌækwəˈzɪʃən/
nounClick to see examples
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We were very confused and we told them no, I have acquisition of citizenship.
How do you feel about language acquisition?
RIKKI POYNTER: Going back to the language acquisition thing.
retrieval
retrieval
/ɹiˈtɹivəɫ/, /ɹɪˈtɹivəɫ/
nounClick to see examples
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- I will be spearheading all retrieval efforts for the orb.
One idea is that this works because of "elaborative retrieval."
The Center staff work closely with our Division on storage and retrieval services.
collection
collection
/kəˈɫɛkʃən/
nounClick to see examples
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He wanted to add the items to his collection.
Google has huge data collections that it uses to improve its searches and select ads.
And then, here is the fall/winter capsule collection.
to recuperate
to recuperate
/ɹɪˈkupɝˌeɪt/
verbClick to see examples
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Sure, sitting for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exercise.
I'm trying to recuperate.
If companies are not able to recuperate research and development cost, they won’t research or develop.
reception
reception
/ɹiˈsɛpʃən/, /ɹɪˈsɛpʃən/
nounClick to see examples
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We had a reception.
And we had receptions at the R&D center, our offices in San Carlos.
I’ve seen too many receptions where everyone just left their heart-shaped cork coasters on the tables.
to accrue
to accrue
/əˈkɹu/
verbClick to see examples
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But if you opt in, then you're foregoing benefits that are accruing from certain other programs.
Knowing that we can deal with unexpected costs without accruing debt helps us sleep at night.
Instead they will accrue to you."
to capture
to capture
/ˈkæptʃɝ/
verbClick to see examples
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It was because Pete didn't leave Obama's side that he was able to capture this historic moment.
Two of the men captured were Americans, ex-US Army Green Berets.
Only to be captured.

to take possession (of)
to take possession (of)
/tˈeɪk pəzˈɛʃən ʌv/
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