as in to spread
to become known
it got about that the company was having financial difficulties
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Higgins got about 38% of those votes, Isbell estimated.
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
What doesn’t Natalie get about this?
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
In the case of breakfast sausage, Flowers said a customer will get about 25 pounds with an order, broken down into 20 pounds of deer meat added to five pounds of pork fat, for $50, or about $2 per pound.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Nov. 2025
Newport Beach now gets about 85% of its water from groundwater and 15% from sources in Northern California and the Colorado River, city officials said.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 28 Nov. 2025
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
What doesn’t Natalie get about this?
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
In the case of breakfast sausage, Flowers said a customer will get about 25 pounds with an order, broken down into 20 pounds of deer meat added to five pounds of pork fat, for $50, or about $2 per pound.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Nov. 2025
Newport Beach now gets about 85% of its water from groundwater and 15% from sources in Northern California and the Colorado River, city officials said.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 28 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for get about
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The shutdown’s ripple effects spread across nearly every part of the air travel network Friday, with the nation’s busiest airports hit hardest.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Controlling a fire means ensuring that the fire can't spread or cross the containment line.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Everything else was affected by its gravitational pull and drawn into the work of dilating it further—even the firms rumored to be at the farthest remove from the crudity, even negative emissions technologies and the market on which their credits circulated.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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The President’s message, circulated among his 11 million followers and beyond, stood in direct defiance of a court order from last week.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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Spacetime may be more strongly curved inside of a black hole’s event horizon, but anything that happens in there can’t get out; nothing can escape a black hole’s interior, even at the speed of light.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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In November 2024, CBS countersued, arguing that Sony had created a false pretext in order to get out of the 42-year-old King World distribution contract.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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There are, of course, some other factors to take into account, including any mobility issues that may make getting around a ship more difficult.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Nov. 2025
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In fact, in many cities, mass transit is the best and most cost-effective way to get around.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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But there’s no one on any planet that could read anything but a small sampling of the books that come out in a particular time period, even in a certain category.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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The truth will come out, and the public must be reminded in this moment that no one is above the law.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Get about.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/get%20about. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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