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as in to win
to receive as return for effort
during my teen years I earned pocket money by mowing lawns
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Recent Examples of earn
The film won an Oscar, helped earn Gore a Nobel Prize, and convinced young Americans that civilization was teetering on the brink.
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Bjorn Lomborg,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 2026
Providence earned two stars each year before the gastronomic guide decided to leave town.
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Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
26 June 2026
Trust is one of the hardest things to earn in modern marketing.
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Jehan Lalkaka,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Ciba mostly makes the metaphor earn its keep because gardens are not innocent.
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Literary Hub,
26 June 2026
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Bjorn Lomborg,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 2026
Providence earned two stars each year before the gastronomic guide decided to leave town.
—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
26 June 2026
Trust is one of the hardest things to earn in modern marketing.
—
Jehan Lalkaka,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Ciba mostly makes the metaphor earn its keep because gardens are not innocent.
—
Literary Hub,
26 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for earn
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Cendejas is a partner at the Strategy Group and has worked with several notable winning political campaigns, including San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and Wahab’s first run for Senate against former Fremont Mayor Lily Mei in 2022.
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The Red Sox have won seven of his last eight games.
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The Padres deserve a ton of credit for breathing life into what now is a feisty rivalry with the Dodgers.
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Families facing difficult diagnoses deserve compassion, not condemnation.
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Rhaenyra’s army, led by her uncle and husband Daemon (Matt Smith), is gaining strength as they’re joined by a grizzled pack of House Stark northmen known as the Winter Wolves.
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Trump might soon gain another ideological bedfellow in Peru with the election of Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of late autocrat Alberto Fujimori.
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So many of those parcels had been seized, stolen, or abandoned, or else were ticking away into the high season, cash millions worth of cannabis sown and soon to be reaped.
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Large firms have outsourced labor-intensive work while reaping technology’s huge productivity gains.
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This revelation sparks questions about a potential double standard by MLB, suggesting a stricter enforcement of uniform policies now that the issue has garnered national attention, compared to Kershaw's similar past actions.
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Lionel Messi’s incredible soccer career has garnered him millions of fans, but no one is as proud of him as his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo.
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Later, there were heavy planters added to the pool deck and other additions made to the building.
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The council made similar appointments when Patrick Cannon stepped down in 2014 after he was indicted on public corruption charges and in 2013 when Anthony Foxx left the city to become the federal secretary of transportation.
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The Hawks own the eighth overall pick, which would be challenging for the Pacers to obtain.
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Information developed during that case led Hernando County investigators to obtain a search warrant for property connected to the Mansfield family, where four bodies were discovered in the early 1980s.
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The Property Brothers star, 48, got candid about previously letting his work bleed too much into his home life, to the point where his 4-year-old son, Parker, started noticing.
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The small island nation off the western coast of Africa, which is making its debut on soccer’s grandest stage, already held 2010 champion Spain to a 0-0 draw and then came from behind to get a 2-2 result against Uruguay.
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“Earn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earn. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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