brought in

verb

past tense of bring in
as in won
to receive as return for effort she's bringing in good money selling houses

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Recent Examples of brought in Carrie’s grandfather or maybe great grandfather had built it with his sons, the planks brought in from Omaha since any hardwood around Platte had long been cut down. — Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026 Philly clawed back a run on a Trea Turner sac fly in the 8th, and Braves manager Walt Weiss, instead of turning to closer Raisel Iglesias, brought in superstar starter Chris Sale to close it out. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Eller was brought in to primarily center Florida’s fourth line, a group that includes Garnet Hathaway and Bokondji Imama, and play on the penalty kill. — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026 For the interiors, the developer brought in Jenni Kayne, the California lifestyle designer whose brand has built a devoted following around the idea of beautiful things that don't announce themselves. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026 Singapore brought in $61,334 and Europe $41,171, while the rest of the world accounted for $483,006. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026 The Mets initially brought in Young on a one-year, major-league contract in December of 2024 with an eye on bolstering the club’s depth. — New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026 The fundraiser brought in more than $700 in two hours and, as of Friday afternoon, had reached nearly $7,300. — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026 Prada was brought in the event to talk about its experience using Iva. — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brought in
  1. won
  2. earned
  3. gained
  4. reaped
  5. garnered
  6. made
  7. obtained
  8. got
Verb
  • Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award—computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—along with fellow AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, the neural network technology that underpins today’s AI boom.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Under Kreiz, Mattel also has won new or renewed entertainment licenses, including Disney Princess and Frozen, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Toy Story, KPop Demon Hunters and DC.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of won
Verb
  • Romero earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from California State University, Long Beach, in addition to her doctorate from UC Riverside.
    — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Formed in 2012, Polaris broke through with 2017’s The Mortal Coil and 2020’s The Death of Me, both of which debuted in the Australian Top 10 and earned ARIA nominations for best hard rock/heavy metal album.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of earned
Verb
  • Pulse oximeters gained prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic, offering anyone a handheld tool to take stock of their blood oxygen level.
    — Anil Oza, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Gordon gained two yards on a first down run, and Willis then threw errantly on a pressured throw to Jalen Tolbert that would have gone nowhere even if it had been completed.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of gained
Verb
  • However, his firm has reaped strong gains from its Phoenix investment, cashing out a quarter of its stake in July for more than $340 million – a return of more than five times its initial stock purchase.
    — Allegra Goodwin, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
  • All three are allegedly part of Ghost Town, a notorious gang from West Oakland that made headlines last year for a brazen high-end robbery spree that reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars and left victims traumatized, according to court records.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of reaped
Verb
  • But even with an issue that’s garnered significant bipartisan support, Congress has still struggled to tackle it in recent years.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
  • In the first six months alone, Goldman has advised on more than $1 trillion in mergers and garnered over $12 billion in equities revenue.
    — Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of garnered
Verb
  • Raffles Bali also takes a responsible approach to waste management, using compost fertilizer made from kitchen and landscape waste and repurposing calcium carbonate-rich eggshells from the restaurants for organic fertilizer in the herb garden.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Like prediction markets, their power lay as much in predication as prediction, in legislating what can be asked, priced, and made real—or made valuable as art assets.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of made
Verb
  • The warrant was obtained a day before he was arrested and for days afterwards police were pictured searching Mountbatten-Windsor’s propeties in Sandringham and on the Windsor estate.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Hill’s memo, obtained by the Observer and other news outlets, raised concerns about ties between board members and CMS contractors and political involvement of CMS representatives.
    — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of obtained
Verb
  • If another worker with a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas PPO plan got the same drug at the same Houston Methodist hospital, an employer could be paying almost six times as much, or nearly $4,400 for a vial.
    — Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
  • A little less than 18 months ago, Ukraine carried out a sneak drone attack in which forces smuggled them into Russian territory and waited until the truck that was unknowingly carrying them got close to Russian bases.
    — Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of got

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