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Recent Examples of garner But the Spanish police, despite having surveilled the group for two years, hadn’t garnered enough direct evidence of drug trafficking by the Kinahans to proceed to trial. Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025 The first half of Sunday’s matchup between the Carolina Panthers and New York Jets at MetLife Stadium garnered more attention for technical difficulties on the Fox broadcast than anything that happened on the field. Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025 The grassroots movement behind EU–INC has garnered over 18,000 signatories and support from Europe’s most successful entrepreneurs and investors, including leaders from Mistral, DeepMind, Stripe, Supercell, Index Ventures and Y Combinator. Jan Hammer, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025 The post garnered more than half a million views and nearly 35,000 likes, generating a lot of buzz in the Instagram comments. Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for garner
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  • The raw material for the inflation report - the price checks on hundreds of goods and services around the country - was collected in September.
    NPR, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The farmer, his son and grandson were still collecting mink, with more than a dozen live traps deployed and checked routinely, Hobbs said.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
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  • In 2025, Ohtani is likely to earn another MVP award, adding to his ever-expanding trophy cabinet.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • With an annual salary of $67,675, new Arkansas State Police recruits earn more than police recruits in Fayetteville, Little Rock and Rogers.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2025
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  • One of them said that the freshmen class should gather at the YMCA building at midnight to practice yells before the game against Texas on the following day.
    Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Accompanying the film screenings around the world, cinema foyers carried installations and themed message walls, and also offered dancefloors and gathering spaces for BTS fans to come together.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
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  • Over the last two decades of accelerating digital politics, commentators are constantly pausing to observe that one party seems to have gained a permanent edge.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Triumph Financial gained more than 2% in thin trading.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Among them are the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the Sandia National Laboratories in California and New Mexico, the Los Alamos National Laboratory—central to nuclear weapons design—in New Mexico and the Pantex Plant in Texas, where warheads are assembled and dismantled.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The first round recommendations were drawn up by the Statewide K-12 Graduation Council, assembled by the governor to address the issue in the wake of last year’s election.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Soon the 2012 Super Bowl champion and MVP could reap greater individual rewards from his stint as Cincinnati's new starter.
    Josh Buckhalter, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • For employees, startups used to dangle the carrot of being able to grow with new technology and reap the benefits of being acquired by a larger giant.
    Michelle Castillo, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • Tennessee has amassed more than $2 billion in a rainy day fund, designed to be used to accommodate unexpected shortfalls in state revenues, and amid emergencies such as natural disasters and recessions.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Naroditsky, an American chess grandmaster who amassed a large online following through streaming and teaching, died unexpectedly at the age of 29, according to a statement released by his family via the Charlotte Chess Center on Monday.
    George Ramsay, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • Not only did his son create the groundbreaking and award-winning theater production, but the musical also shares a special connection to the beginnings of his relationship with his wife, Luz Towns-Miranda.
    Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Two-time All Pro linebacker James Harrison led a fierce Pittsburgh Steelers defense for years, winning Defensive Player of the Year in 2008.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Garner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garner. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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