How to Use transact in a Sentence

transact

verb
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  • We had some important business to transact with our distributors.
  • Still, the price to transact on the Solana blockchain has been one of its biggest draws.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Whether the system that transacts in those bonds can bear the load could be a much more urgent issue.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Choose two agents at random and have them transact, then do the same with another two, and so on.
    — Bruce M. Boghosian, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Those deals that have transacted are much less than the halcyon days of two years ago.
    — Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 8 June 2024
  • But a lot of Nigerians found a way to transact without the fiat leg.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The only requirement at the Writers’ Colony is for the writer to transact with their own voice.
    — Kailyn Brown, Essence, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Think of the 170 million Facebook users in Africa, many of whom already bank and transact on mobile phones.
    — Molly Wood, WIRED, 26 June 2019
  • But, roughly 75% of our customers that transact in stores have shopped with us online.
    — Charity L. Scott, WSJ, 29 May 2021
  • Into life in a way that wanted all the good stuff out of life but didn't want to pay the respect that life needed to transact one's way through it.
    — Joshua Rothkopf and Mike Miller, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Users can transact in multiples of Rs300 to increase their chances.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Moreover, the convenience of being able to transact business 24/7 from anywhere in the world is too good to give up.
    — Kristin Savilia, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Most of the 600 million euros transacted through its venue last year occurred in the fourth quarter.
    — Bloomberg.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Yes, these Atlanta Braves don’t look or sound or transact like so many of the 29 other franchises in the major leagues.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Fees are collected whenever users transact on a blockchain and are a good gauge for how much the blockchain is being used, Malekan said.
    — Fortune, 2 June 2022
  • Much like a fish market, each customer decides to transact with a vendor.
    — Michael Gale, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
  • China, which has a tight hold on its currency, also uses Hong Kong as the first financial stop to transact and trade with the rest of the world.
    — New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
  • And so our goal is to cover that gamut of transactions so that you will not be required to transact outside of your smartphone.
    — WSJ, 13 June 2017
  • WeChat app allowing users to communicate and transact in the same space.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2021
  • What was the name of that nephew of his whom Richardson, unmarried and childless, allowed to transact some of his business affairs?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Executives need to have a plan and a vision for why their company should transact with a SPAC.
    — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The value of apartment deals transacted in the quarter fell by 40 percent year over year to $1.5 billion in the Houston region in the third quarter.
    — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Deutsche Bank made the trade in anticipation of how clients were going to transact and isn’t expecting the bet to reverse, one of the people said.
    — Matt Scully, Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2017
  • What’s most troubling, then, is not just the primacy that some coiners place on the freedom to transact above other, more pro-social rights.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • At the moment, both Chinese giants are hustling to find more ways for people to transact using their wallet and not the other’s.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • A few days after the contentious meeting, Carey and her husband went to the tax collector’s office to transact some business.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • That liability had been hanging over the firm and had raised questions about whether Kushner Cos. had the means to transact any large deals.
    — Peter Grant, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
  • Most of these ventures got a push as Indians opted to stay indoors and transact online to avoid contracting the virus.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The parties can then transact without having to broadcast the transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain, avoiding delays and costs.
    — Fortune, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The average monthly fee across them was $790/month, excluding the additional fee most pay as a percent of cash transacted in the account(s).
    — Alissa Jubelirer, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2024

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