GARNERS Synonyms: 115 Similar and Opposite Words

garners

verb

present tense third-person singular of garner

as in collects

to bring together in one body or place a prisoner garnering food bit by bit and hiding it in his pillow an array of rock bands garnered from all over the country by the promoters of the festival

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as in earns

to receive as return for effort a novelist that has garnered praise for his literate police procedurals

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Recent Examples of garners As Wembanyama garners worldwide attention, arriving right at Tatum and Silver’s New York doorstep in a moment that could change the sport, the NBA’s desire to expand hastens. —

Jared Weiss, New York Times, 5 June 2026 Unless one candidate garners more than 50% of the votes to outright win the seat, the top two vote-getters will move on to the November general election ballot. —

Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 3 June 2026 Their Instagram account garners 12,500 followers — more than double and sometimes triple that of most MLP teams. —

Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026 What few efforts do exist to address alcohol’s harms have been overshadowed by the opioid crisis, a parallel drug epidemic that attracts more funding, spurs more policy change, and garners more media attention despite being vastly less deadly. —

Lev Facher, STAT, 12 May 2026 Unless one candidate garners more than 50% of votes in the June 2 primary to outright win the seat, the top two vote-getters will move on to the November general election ballot. —

Claire Wang, Oc Register, 8 May 2026 If neither Bass nor Raman garners more that 50% of the vote, as occurred in the now incumbent’s battle with developer Rick Caruso in 2022, then the election goes to a runoff on November 3, the same day as the potentially seismic midterms. —

Dominic Patten, Deadline, 1 May 2026 Interacting with an audience is now an essential journalistic value as the engagement garners an audience’s attention. —

Kirstin Pellizzaro, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026 Still, celebrities have to grapple with the reputational risks of leaning into a technology that garners widespread public distrust. —

Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026

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Aaru, a two-year-old AI startup, simulated all of those voters—agents built from the kind of data the company collects, like credit card purchasing history, food-delivery orders, and demographic records—and tried to predict how the votes would be cast.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 June 2026
The Institute of Education Sciences evaluates and collects statistics, and the National Center for Education Statistics administers the Nation’s Report Card and other federal tests.

— Alia Wong, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026