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01. Personally, I've never really [acquired] a taste for whiskey.

02. The artist [acquired] a lot of useful art supplies while shopping in the big city.

03. The [acquisition] of a number of original paintings by Vincent van Gogh was a major accomplishment for the new museum.

04. Kenneth [acquired] a 60% stake in the company after the death of his partner.

05. Averil Coxhead has noted that young children [acquire] new words in their native language at an amazing rate.

06. Coffee is a taste that I've never been able to [acquire].

07. Chris' band is [acquiring] a good reputation in the clubs around town.

08. Have you heard my latest CD [acquisition] by Santana?

09. Sam Ewing once observed that we are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we [acquire] after that is profit.

10. Laurence J. Peter once said that education helps one [acquire] a higher grade of prejudices.

11. There is a Saudi Arabian proverb which states that knowledge [acquired] as a child is more lasting than an engraving in stone.

12. Following the merger, restructuring was deemed necessary in order to incorporate the newly [acquired] plants and employees.

13. You must declare everything you have purchased or [acquired] abroad at Customs.

14. Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely [acquire] a vocabulary of more than twenty words.

15. A human fetus [acquires] fingerprints at the age of three months.

16. Karla had [acquired] a bit of an English accent after living in London for 5 years.

17. Jamaican politics has [acquired] a reputation for bringing violence to the streets of this island nation.

18. Franklin Adams once remarked, "I find that a great part of the information I have was [acquired] by looking up something, and finding something else on the way."

19. The United States [acquired] Florida from Spain in 1819.

20. Albert Einstein once said that wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the life-long attempt to [acquire] it.

21. Scientists estimate that our earth [acquired] its present size between 4,000 million and 5,000 million years ago.

22. The rulers of Tibet brought Buddhism to the country in the 8th century in order to [acquire] the higher culture they saw in neighboring kingdoms.

23. Psychologists regard learning as more than simply the process of [acquiring] knowledge.

24. Psychologists make inferences about the process of learning and the [acquisition] of knowledge by observing behavior, and noting how behavior changes over time.

25. Our sense of touch allows us to [acquire] information about the weight, shape, firmness and texture of objects in our environment.

26. The library has some new [acquisitions] that you might want to check out.

27. Keith Folse has observed that second language learners see [acquisition] of vocabulary as their greatest source of problems.

28. By the mid-seventeenth century, Italian opera had [acquired] the essential features it would maintain largely without change for the next two centuries.