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168 examples of Acquisition in a sentence

And so with many privacy provisions put in place to protect everyone who was recorded in the data, we made elements of the data available to my trusted research team at MIT so we could start teasing apart patterns in this massive data set, trying to understand the influence of social environments on language acquisition.
So we're using these structures to start predicting the order of language acquisition, and that's ongoing work now.
Because our acquisition of social learning would create a social and evolutionary dilemma, the resolution of which, it's fair to say, would determine not only the future course of our psychology, but the future course of the entire world.
What I'm going to show you first, as quickly as I can, is some foundational work, some new technology that we brought to Microsoft as part of an acquisition almost exactly a year ago.
We started by organizing image acquisition from magnetic resonance and CT imaging machines, from which to make a model of the patient's aorta.
He oversaw land acquisition on behalf of the Palestine Land Development Company whose work led to the establishment of a Jewish state.
We appeared surprised at the behaviors of those who define themselves by the size of the tick on their shoes, yet acquisition has been the narrative we have offered.
Bing Capital's acquisition of Edcon, a large retailer, is testimony to the confidence they are starting to place in the economy.
He was working in a big bank, and this was in preparation for a merger and acquisition.
Can technology alter the acquisition of values?
So to get to choosing Eric Chahi's wonderful Another World, amongst others, we put together a panel of experts, and we worked on this acquisition, and it's mostly myself and Kate Carmody and Paul Galloway.
That's what makes this acquisition more than a little game or a little joke.
So it's an acquisition where MoMA makes an arrangement with an airline and keeps the Boeing 747 flying.
It was the first example of an acquisition of something that is in the public domain.
And it's too long to explain the acquisition, but if you want to go on the MoMA blog, there's a long post where I explain why it's such a great example of design.
As the sky gets darker, and the outside air temperatures drop below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the most environmentally hostile segment of Helios's journey has gone by without notice, except for being recorded by specially designed data acquisition systems and their associated sensors.
First comes acquisition: the moment you encounter a new piece of information.
But it's a lightning bolt compared to the snail's pace of language acquisition.
Facebook lies to EU regulators and says, "It would be impossible for us to share the data between our core platform and our proposed acquisition of WhatsApp.
We're fining you 120 [million] dollars," about .6 percent of the acquisition price of 19 billion dollars.
If Mark Zuckerberg could take out an insurance policy that the acquisition would go through for .6 percent, wouldn't he do it?
In between the time they announced the acquisition of Whole Foods and when it closed, Kroger, the largest pure-play grocer in America, shed a third of its value, because Amazon purchased a grocer one-eleventh the size of Kroger.
I predicted the acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon the week before it happened.
This was the largest acquisition in their history, they'd never made an acquisition over a billion, and people asked, "How did you know this?" How did I know this?
I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods.
According to this theory, children learn languages more easily because the plasticity of their developing brains lets them use both hemispheres in language acquisition, while in most adults, language is lateralized to one hemisphere, usually the left.
Feelings get in the way of the mass acquisition of the Earth, and excavating the Earth, and destroying things.
It's simply to use language around them, because the driving force in language acquisition is to understand what others, that are important to you, are saying to you.
So the device that you see is a 14-channel, high-fidelity EEG acquisition system.
Seems that there's a rich American developer that wants to build a hotel on a remote island, and he hires a guy with a boat to take him and his recent acquisition (Laura Gemser) to this place.
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