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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acquired book" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a book that has been obtained or purchased, often in the context of discussing a collection or library.
Example: "After years of searching, I finally found the acquired book that completes my collection on ancient history."
Alternatives: "obtained book" or "purchased book".
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He was a man of hard-won knowledge but little formal education and stood in awe of those whose heads were full of expensively acquired book learning.
After I left the bar last night, I took a highlighter pen to my newly acquired book of abstracts.
Quarterly, which has sent boxes to more than 100,000 subscribers, recently acquired book subscription club BooklyBox to build PageHabit, and will first offer the service in six genres: literary fiction, young adult, fantasy, romance, historical fiction, and mystery.
While writing what I thought would be my first diabetes book, my newly acquired book agent said, "I don't think we'll find a publisher for this".
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The new policy applies to newly acquired books.
The librarians display newly acquired books in the lobby.
Ransom acquired books and manuscripts so rapidly that they piled up in the halls and stairwells.
The Fales also acquired books and papers that had belonged to the chef and author James Beard.
The five neatly arranged, recently acquired books in his bathroom were all trim and compact.
As a boy, Auden (1907-73) hacquiredred books about mining and engineering.
Losh, who died in 1853 at 67, continually acquired books about "archaeology and architecture, politics and theology, literature and geology," she reports.
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