as in earns
to receive as return for effort
she's bringing in good money selling houses
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Recent Examples of brings in
In addition to sponsorships, the LA28 committee brings in money through ticket sales and licensing agreements.
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Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
Last week, organizers canceled the yearly Habanos cigar festival that brings in millions of dollars of revenue.
—Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
Quinn temporarily took over as the defensive play-caller but now brings in Jones to try to rebuild a unit that was among the worst in the NFL while the Commanders went 5-12 a year after going 12-5 and making it all the way to the NFC championship game.
—CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
Built in 1929, the theater brings in national acts like Dave Mason, Béla Fleck, and Bryan Adams, and screens throwback movies with live Wurlitzer organ accompaniment in a space featuring castle balconies and a starlit ceiling.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
Instead, Netflix shifted its focus toward how much money the business brings in and how people actually use the platform.
—Allie Canal, NBC news, 20 Jan. 2026
Initial acts will feature a variety of musical performances before the theater brings in Broadway shows.
—Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 6 Jan. 2026
Tony Khan often brings in independent performers for enhancement matches to get a closer look at them.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Scott’s brand Range brings in seven figures in revenue and is sold in 88 Sephora stores.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
Last week, organizers canceled the yearly Habanos cigar festival that brings in millions of dollars of revenue.
—Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
Quinn temporarily took over as the defensive play-caller but now brings in Jones to try to rebuild a unit that was among the worst in the NFL while the Commanders went 5-12 a year after going 12-5 and making it all the way to the NFC championship game.
—CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
Built in 1929, the theater brings in national acts like Dave Mason, Béla Fleck, and Bryan Adams, and screens throwback movies with live Wurlitzer organ accompaniment in a space featuring castle balconies and a starlit ceiling.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
Instead, Netflix shifted its focus toward how much money the business brings in and how people actually use the platform.
—Allie Canal, NBC news, 20 Jan. 2026
Initial acts will feature a variety of musical performances before the theater brings in Broadway shows.
—Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 6 Jan. 2026
Tony Khan often brings in independent performers for enhancement matches to get a closer look at them.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Scott’s brand Range brings in seven figures in revenue and is sold in 88 Sephora stores.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brings in
Verb
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The top team earns automatic promotion to the fifth tier.—
Ryan Brennan
March 5,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Mar. 2026
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The winner of this matchup earns the seventh playoff seed.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Players can multiply non-jackpot wins up to 10 times when the jackpot is $150 million or less.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
7 Mar. 2026
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Schnabel’s cinematic canon includes Basquiat, Before Night Falls, and 4x Oscar nominated The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which earned the filmmaker a Best Director Oscar nom, and Best Director wins at the Cannes Film Festival, Golden Globes and Césars.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Perhaps some enterprising Democrat or Republican will come along who exhibits more faith in our constitutional system, governs with the foresight that there are more elections to come than just the next one — and reaps the benefits.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
11 Feb. 2026
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And if the hypotheticals are not enough to dissuade, history is littered with teams trading away their future for immediate glories, seeing their plans implode, and being left with a ruinous future that becomes a hopeless present while another team reaps the benefits.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Congress does not have a yay or nay on the merger, but Democratic lawmakers have warned of investigations and other actions, something that will prove much more salient if the party gains control of one or more chambers in the midterms.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
27 Feb. 2026
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And as the movement gains traction, psychologists are stepping in to analyze the phenomenon and its place in public discourse.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Attorneys for Meta say the company discloses risks and makes efforts to weed out harmful content and experiences -- acknowledging that some bad material still gets through its safety net.—
MORGAN LEE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
6 Mar. 2026
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Finally, after all of those effects, the light makes it to the Local Group, the Milky Way, and all the way to us in the Solar System.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The cool-girl pair garners plenty of praise, and the kicker?—
Kyra Surgent,
InStyle,
7 Feb. 2026
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That doesn’t factor in the attention Cade Cunningham garners from defenders, which should generate open looks for Huerter.—
Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
Verb
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For now, iSales is a 50-person team mostly based in Shanghai’s Pudong district, where Pan said the startup gets free office space courtesy of the local government, along with subsidies to use Chinese AI models.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
4 Mar. 2026
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The operation will curtail oil shipments from Iran to China, which gets 90 percent of its oil from Tehran.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The letter lands a day after the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), whose members include Nvidia, Google and Anthropic, sent a letter to Hegseth expressing similar concerns.—
Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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Stedman lands every blow thanks to her patient accumulation of ordinary life, the shearing and mustering and fence-mending, the slow mapping of relationships that ensures each loss registers as something more than plot machinery.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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