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Every discovery procures new discoveries

He procured seat in the front row.

It remained very difficult to procure food, fuel and other daily necessities

It appears to be easy for teenagers to procure drugs

She's ​managed ​somehow to procure his ​phone ​number.

An admiring fan once asked Christopher Columbus how he managed to procure funding for all of his amazing journeys. Columbus then took the fan to an abandoned alley, took out a pistol, and said "That's how".