The phrase "acquired black" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that has been obtained or gained that is black in color, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The artist acquired black paint for her new project."
Alternatives: "obtained black" or "gained black".
This week the museum announced that it has acquired "Black Block," its first work by Mr. Anatsui.
But even Augusta National, an institution populated by multi-millionaires who are conditioned to dismiss Genghis Khan as a lily- livered liberal, has acquired black and female members.
I popped three children out in a birthing pool in the front room, my newly acquired black labrador gazing dolefully at me as I screamed in pain.
Rounding out the clan are her two grown daughters, Michelle Catherinee Keener and Elizabethh, and Jane's recently acquired black 8-year-old adopted daughter, Annie (Raven Goodwin), whose biological mother was a crack addict.
Adler says MoMA's interest in White increased after the museum acquired Black Pope, one of his most popular works, in 2013.
Kammerer defended his conclusions energetically but in 1923 his career came to end after the famous geneticist William Bateson found that Kammerer's showcase midwife toad that supposedly acquired black mating pads, a trait that was passed to the progeny, was actually injected with black ink.
"That allowed them to acquire Black & Decker," Mr. Sellecchia said.
If Jesse Jackson endorses John Edwards, a white candidate speaking for the dispossessed might acquire black validation.
Arcadia expanded its radical remit by acquiring Black Amber, a list of black and minority ethnic authors, and courted contention with White Masai (2001), Corinne Hofmann's memoir of marrying into the Masai people.
The Thrashers' roster makeup at the start of the season led to speculation in the blogosphere that the team was deliberately acquiring black players in an effort to broaden its appeal in greater Atlanta, an area long known for the size, prominence and wealth of its African-American population.
By three weeks, the young bird acquires black scapulars and flight feathers.
