"acquire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- By 1999, as the leader of three important and successful BIDs in midtown Manhattan, Biederman had acquired considerable stature as a person who could remedy urban situations long believed intractable.
- He must acquire stature and establish his maturity and character and gravitas while serving an office that has tended to diminish its occupants.
- Welch (1957:96-97) concludes that fangshi developed alchemy, "although Tsou Yen gradually acquired alchemistical stature, he himself knew nothing of the art.
- Clearly part of the allure of Mr. Stingel's art is its biting humor, its challenge to ideas that have acquired outsize stature in our culture.
- Overnight, the critic Brooks Atkinson declared in his review for The Times, the American theater had acquired "size and stature."
- Loyally as always, he did the party's bidding in this as in so much else, but he was also acquiring stature and authority.
- An active member of international trades bodies, he acquired international stature in business.
- Other traits included mild facial changes, acquired short stature as seen in other MPS disorders, and normal joint movement and intelligence.
- Music that might have seemed effete in the hands of a lesser singer acquired stature.
- The International Wine Review is slowly acquiring stature.
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