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Recent Examples of get around But soon, as word got around about his work, the music community called him Greazy Keyz more than Jason Atkins. Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 16 June 2025 No cars are allowed on Hamilton Island, so guests can get around on foot or by buggy or shuttle. Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2025 Performers on its smaller or newer shows get around $2,000 for an episode. Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 2 June 2025 But a year passed — then another, then another — and Torre never got around to applying for law school. Zak Keefer, New York Times, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for get around
Recent Examples of Synonyms for get around
Verb
  • The Thunder overcame two Game 7s en route to the title, and they will now forever be called champions.
    Matt Levine, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • Advertisement Indiana tried its best to overcome heartbreak in Game 7: Tyrese Haliburton, the Pacers’ star point guard who was playing with a calf strain in his right leg, suffered an achilles injury in the first quarter.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • In doing so, Ford circumvented a hefty 25% tariff and only paid a 2.5% import duty.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 18 June 2025
  • Presidents since Nixon have circumvented the resolution by simply not recognizing it or by asserting their power as commander in chief.
    ELIZABETH N. SAUNDERS, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • Despite the ban, unhealthy information on achieving extreme thinness continues to spread on social media.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 25 June 2025
  • Mamdani held the advantage of being a media-savvy millennial who appeared singularly cognizant of the benefits of harnessing the internet to spread his message in a race where Cuomo held the power of instant name recognition.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 25 June 2025
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  • The movie also acknowledges that there is a climate crisis, but tries to avoid having viewers frozen with fear.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
  • Several groups have begun paying street vendors in California to temporarily stop working in public areas to avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • This will be the second matchup of the season between the two teams, with the Mercury defeating the Sky 94-89 on May 27, 2025.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
  • Mullins defeated Zhelezniakova via TKO in 2022 on an Ares card.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • Cochran drove in a manner that indicated to Taylor that the sheriff was trying to evade him, Welch said.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 28 June 2025
  • Last year, the Russians began including decoy drones with their Shahed drones to increase the likelihood of evading Ukrainian defenses.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • And right now is when pollen from ryegrass, timothy grass, and ragweed starts circulating.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2025
  • His commentary on the situation was revealed during the June 18 episode of his podcast, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, which has since circulated widely on social media.
    Kate Nalepinski, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • Police on Friday captured one of the New Orleans parish inmates who escaped six weeks ago in a jailbreak Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry called the worst in recent state history.
    CBS News, CBS News, 27 June 2025
  • There is nothing inherently better about Rowling’s magic that would lead its users to escape the loss of a personal sense of accomplishment—or knowledge, skills, or tactility—and as the novels show, the threat of overuse looms as greatly over their existence as our own.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025

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