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buying it

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variants or buying the farm

present participle of buy it

as in dying

to stop living After years of ignoring his health problems, the old man finally bought it.

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Recent Examples of buying it At 66 ounces, one bag covers dinner more than once, which is the whole point of buying it at Costco. — Danielle Bouchard, Martha Stewart, 15 Oct. 2026 Wall Street, at least, is buying it, and is now bullish on Meta’s ability to drive revenue through Muse, Reuters reports. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 But speculators on prediction market platform Kalshi are not buying it, pricing in an 87% chance that the average gas prices will stay above $4 per gallon heading into the elections in November. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026 The old courthouse, which opened in 1928, is designated historic, which protects it from demolition by whoever ends up buying it. — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026 And there’s an entire institutional market built around buying it. — Rob Haynie, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Just because a list is for sale does not mean the company selling it or the company buying it is doing anything wrong. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 And because of SoundScan, nobody could ignore how many mall rats were out there buying it. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2026

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