How to Use repurchase in a Sentence
repurchase
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The owner accepted, and the city of Boise repurchased the land.
—Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
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So far, Fox has repurchased $4.4 billion worth of shares as part of its plan.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 9 May 2023
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Less debt and more cash flow will prompt the company to repurchase shares.
—Brett Owens, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
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The company has used its healthy free cash flows to repurchase 40% of its outstanding shares over the past 10 years.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
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How will the new tax on stock buybacks affect company repurchase plans in the years ahead?
—Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
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One way is to repurchase shares, which leaves the remaining shares more valuable.
—Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
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Also, a contract with Weidner gives the county the right to repurchase the property if the project falls through.
—Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2021
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The lawsuit, which seeks to have the city repurchase all the medallions plus pay damages, is slated for trial this summer.
—Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2021
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In the last decade, Fortune 500 companies have repurchased more than $3 trillion worth of their own shares.
—Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2020
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The company said shares will be repurchased from the open market starting Dec. 1.
—P.r. Venkat, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
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Short sellers borrow shares and sell them, with a plan to repurchase them at lower prices and pocket the difference.
—Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 9 May 2022
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Renault could then repurchase the stake within six years, Renault said in announcing the deal.
—New York Times, 16 May 2022
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But Berkshire did spend $4.4 billion during the quarter to repurchase its own shares.
—Josh Funk, Fortune, 6 May 2023
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The company spent $24.7 billion last year to repurchase shares.
—Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 27 Feb. 2021
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Deutsche Bank’s announcement Friday to repurchase a subordinated bond came on the very first day that the lender had the right to announce it.
—Giulia Morpurgo, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
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The trial could have wide-ranging effects on home equity theft and the way that at least a dozen states repurchase people's houses.
—Justin Klawans, The Week, 2 May 2023
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The tree was usually found on land that had been given away or sold cheap by the federal government—and then had to be repurchased at very high cost.
—Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
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Over the past 4 quarters the company has repurchased $10 billion of shares and increased its dividend by a fifth.
—Laura Hurst, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
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One new tax applies to companies that repurchase their stock.
—Tony Romm, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
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Endeavor expects to fund the stock repurchase with cash on hand, according to a separate 8-K filing with the SEC.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
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Short-sellers are traders who bet that stocks will fall by borrowing shares and selling them high with the belief that they can be repurchased later at a lower cost.
—Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
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If an incomplete weld is found, GM will offer to repurchase the vehicle.
—Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2023
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All of the companies kept their focus on returning cash to shareholders, and BP pledged to repurchase $3.5 billion of shares in the first half of the year, matching the pace of prior quarters.
—Bloomberg, Fortune Europe, 7 May 2024
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On one side, thousands of people have contributed cash in an effort to repurchase the house, which the family lost in a 2018 foreclosure sale.
—oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2020
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And Bed, Bath & Beyond isn’t even the first retailer to spend billions of dollars repurchasing its own stock on its way to bankruptcy court.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
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Credit Suisse tapped the Swiss National Bank for as much as 50 billion francs ($54 billion) and offered to repurchase debt.
—Sagarika Jaisinghani, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
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The last time iPhone owners had to repurchase all their cables was in 2012, when Apple introduced the Lightning connector.
—Byrachyl Jones, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
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Nvidia also announced a new authorization to repurchase up to $25 billion worth of stock.
—WSJ, 23 Aug. 2023
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During the three months ended Sept. 30, Bristol-Myers Squibb repurchased $4 billion of shares.
—Gurufocus, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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It was repurchased by the tribe in the 1980s, using funds earmarked by Congress after lawmakers approved a settlement between Maine and Wabanaki tribes.
—Kate Olson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2024
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