"acquire sense" is an appropriate phrase to use in written English.
You can use it when you want to express someone gaining the ability to understand something. For example, "Through many years of experience, he acquired a sense for assessing the value of a company."
A former New York Times reporter, Berenson combines his thorough knowledge of the Middle East with an acquired sense of corporate intrigue in this bullet-paced, psychologically engaging tale of torture and espionage.
The reward for patience is long, deep and meaningful friendships, plus a newly acquired sense of guarded scepticism and fear that the comfort finally achieved will be disturbed by someone new.
With his improved serve, great returns, compact ground strokes and newly acquired sense of destiny, he has looked at ease with help from the higher bounce provided by dry, warm conditions.
This label is used here in its more recently acquired sense, not its original one.
Local search and advertising company YP is announcing that it has acquired Sense Networks.
"It is my hope that whatever path the interns take post-graduation that they will carry with them a newly acquired sense of social responsibility and a deep compassion for those who have less," he said.
Lebow added that YP's mobile ad efforts have been focused on search until now, so acquiring Sense (a decade-old, venture-backed company) gives YP a foothold to expand into mobile display as well.
The two companies already worked together, but he said that actually acquiring Sense's technology, with its ability to create custom consumer profiles for use in mobile ad targeting, will give YP a real competitive advantage.
These benefits included improvements to their management skills, their approaches to customer care and a newly acquired sense of responsibility in their work.
A sign which hitherto had no sense acquires the sense of a complex expression by definition.
