The phrase "acquiring out" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be a misunderstanding or misphrasing, as "acquire" typically does not pair with "out" in this context.
Example: "I am acquiring new skills to enhance my career."
Alternatives: "obtaining" or "gaining".
The potential for sequential tool use in New Caledonian crows is likely to relate to general problem-solving abilities, rather than to an evolutionary adaptation for acquiring out-of-reach tools (which seems an unlikely scenario in their native forested habitat, where sticks are readily available).
The experimental setup acquired out-of-plane (normal to the plane of the stringbed) bending, torsional and string-bed mode shapes that have been reported in past literature.
The issue is important not only nationally, but also locally, his aides say, because 85 percent of the guns used in crimes in New York City are acquired out-of-state.
Once Alabama law allowed banks to acquire out-of-state banks, AmSouth bought dozens, and Birmingham grew from a steel manufacturing city into the nation's fourth-largest banking center.
Gosder Cherilus, Todd Herremans and Samson Satele headline the veteran busts that the team has acquired out of desperation.
Mr. Icahn struggled for years to turn around Trans World Airlines, which was acquired out of bankruptcy by American Airlines last year.
* Medallion Media, New York, the taxi-top advertising division of Medallion Financial Corp., agreed to acquire Out There Media, Cleveland, for undisclosed terms.
The property, H House, was acquired out of a distress situation and after eight years of tedious effort is now economically healthy.
An in-house fashion-designer incubator at Lord & Taylor was closed, and he liquidated Fortunoff, which NRDC had acquired out of bankruptcy.
The hospital's turnabout started in 2008 when it was acquired out of bankruptcy by a consortium of buyers in a deal valued at about $41 million.
