as in to spread
to become known
it got about that the company was having financial difficulties
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Recent Examples of get about
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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Almost immediately after oversight of TikTok’s US operations changed, misinformation started to spread about changes to the app’s new terms of service, including those that applied to location sharing and data collection, Fiesler said.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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Families who never qualified say their costs are rising, too, as insurers spread the increases across the entire market.—
Mahsa Saeidi,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Two members of the Coordination Framework confirmed to The Associated Press having received the message, a copy of which was circulated widely on social media.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Jan. 2026
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Hynde and Pretenders guitarist James Walbourne circulated Standing in the Doorway as nine revelatory installments of a Dylan Lockdown Series, and for her, too, the adventure originated in Rough and Rowdy Ways.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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But the reports that got out focused on the inefficiency of the military, and the atrocities that were done against Filipino soldiers and Filipino civilians by American soldiers.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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The man who has acted alongside the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Norton, Denzel Washington, and Johnny Depp first got into acting at age 16 simply to get out of school.—
Mike Wehner,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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Some of the city's narrow streets fell victim to the aggressive snow totals, leaving residents with little wiggle room to get around it.—
Andrew Ramos,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Perez cuts costs by getting around on an electric bike to help him save money.—
Alvaro Acosta,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
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There's been interest in different kinds of strobing ever since electroencephalograms (EEGs) came out.—
Cortney Harding,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Utah came out of the gates blistering hot on offense.—
Oc Register,
Oc Register,
28 Jan. 2026
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