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 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 O’Had garners the honor, known as the John Brophy Award, following a campaign in which KC captured the Brabham Cup with the league’s top win/loss record. —

The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026 By all appearances, the title had all the makings of a hit doc, the kind of movie that garners serious buzz by word-of-mouth. —

Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026 Phillip – the only Black woman to helm a primetime news program in the most coveted block of news programming – garners praise for keeping her cool as host amid the show's heated hour-long runtime. —

Jay Stahl, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026

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Thermal energy storage collects low-cost, off-peak energy from virtually any source – local wind turbines in this case – and stores it as heat in insulated blocks of solid carbon that reach 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

— CBS News, CBS News, 20 May 2026
The other thing happening while your phone collects dust on the table?

— Angela Haupt, Time, 19 May 2026