Reinhold Niebuhr
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What do you call a building in which grain is stored? These days, English speakers are most likely to call it a granary, but there was a time when garner was also a good candidate. That noun made its way into the language in the 12th century (ultimately from Latin granum, "grain"); the verb garner followed three centuries later with a closely related meaning: "to gather into a granary." Today the verb has largely abandoned its agrarian roots—it usually means "to earn" or "to accumulate." Meanwhile the noun garner is rare in contemporary use. It's found mostly in older literary contexts, such as these lines from Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor: "Or, from the garner-door, on ether borne, / The chaff flies devious from the winnow'd corn."
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Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
The multichannel campaign included 15-second behind-the-scenes snippets on TikTok that garnered high loop rates, with high-impact posters greeting arriving jet setters at Heathrow’s baggage carousel.
—Danielle Directo-Meston, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2026
Union De Vecinos has organized a petition opposing the BID that organizers said has garnered more than 300 signatures.
—Alejandra Molina, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
Civil disobedience is usually an effective tool for garnering attention.
—Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
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“Garner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garner. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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