GET ALONG Synonyms: 96 Similar and Opposite Words

get along

verb

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as in to cope

to meet one's day-to-day needs most college students can get along with just a few hours of sleep at night

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as in to progress

to move forward along a course the preparations for the party are getting along just fine

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Recent Examples of get along Mary was the sixth child of his first wife, Eliza, who died giving birth to a seventh; Betsy, his second wife, with whom Mary almost never got along, went on to have nine children of her own. —

Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 Demonstrators' signs declared the real losers were regular people whose lives are being upended by an industry controlled by out-of-touch billionaires who can’t get along. —

ABC News, 18 May 2026 Friends of friends will almost inevitably get along, new faces lead to new conversations, and old friends lead to a lot of laughter. —

Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 12 May 2026 Nicholas Elliott Sometimes, the best way to demonstrate your interpreter bona fides is by getting along with a filmmaker who’s notorious for being difficult. —

Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for get along

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Amid fears of how Kvaratskhelia would cope with the difficulties, his long-time youth coach, Vladimer Kakashvili, made a proposal.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 29 May 2026
Severe weather alerts are in effect across Western Europe as millions cope with extreme temperatures.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 29 May 2026