get about
verb
got about; got about or gotten about; getting about; gets about
1
: to become current : circulate
2
: to be up and about : begin to walk
able to get about again
Examples of get about in a Sentence
it got about that the company was having financial difficulties
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2025
Iowa now gets about 63% of its electricity from wind, while Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas have seen significant growth.
—Kee Hyun Park, The Conversation, 20 Nov. 2025
Post says these days, most of the questions the institute gets about Friendsgiving revolve around the etiquette of potlucks.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
The August transaction with EchoStar saw AT&T get about 30MHz of capacity in that band, plus roughly 20MHz of 600MHz spectrum.
—PC Magazine, 17 Nov. 2025
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“Get about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20about. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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