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For a Dodgers team already resented for buying up baseball with its massive payroll, watching its star closer stroll through a cockfighting pit in full uniform feels tailor-made to ignite outrage back home.—Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026 In January, OpenAI agreed to buy up to 750 megawatts of compute from Cerebras over three years in a deal valued at more than $20 billion.—Richard Nieva, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026 Those firms are buying up gas capacity to ensure that data centers can be built quickly, even if that means sidelining climate targets.—Justin Worland, Time, 8 May 2026 Here's a fascinating story about a hockey dad who built a business that bought up rinks and teams across the Northeast and Midwest and then allegedly leveraged that control to steer families into its own costly ecosystem of leagues, tournaments and fees.—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for buy up