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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Detroit is expected to get about 5 inches of snow accumulation and Monroe is expected to receive 6 inches.
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Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 24 Jan. 2026
On an average day, the Weather Channel web site and its sister sites including Weather Underground get about 70 million visits collectively.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
Our newsletter is emailed to about 6,000 people a week and our website gets about 39,000 visitors a month, not huge in the world of internet news.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
The voters wanted to share the tax money not just with LA County, but with the 88 cities in the county which gets about $94 million.
—Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 17 Jan. 2026
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Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 24 Jan. 2026
On an average day, the Weather Channel web site and its sister sites including Weather Underground get about 70 million visits collectively.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
Our newsletter is emailed to about 6,000 people a week and our website gets about 39,000 visitors a month, not huge in the world of internet news.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
The voters wanted to share the tax money not just with LA County, but with the 88 cities in the county which gets about $94 million.
—Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 17 Jan. 2026
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“Get about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20about. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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