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- I'm not sure I ever got the new math
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- don't cough on me—I don't want to get your cold
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- catches,
- comes down (with),
- contracts,
- goes down (with)
- [chiefly British],
- sickens (with),
- takes
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- Abraham was quite old when he got Isaac, his only son
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- tried to get the mayor to let us stage the concert in the town square, but she refused
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- redid the math problem until I got the right answer
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- continuously clearing your throat like that is starting to get to me
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- it's going to get colder as winter approaches
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- got an A on his final paper
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- she was speaking so fast—did you get what she said?
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- appreciates,
- apprehends,
- assimilates,
- beholds,
- catches,
- catches on (to),
- cognizes,
- compasses,
- comprehends,
- conceives,
- cottons (to or on to),
- deciphers,
- decodes,
- digs,
- discerns,
- grasps,
- groks,
- intuits,
- knows,
- makes,
- makes out,
- perceives,
- recognizes,
- registers,
- savvies,
- sees,
- seizes,
- senses,
- tumbles (to),
- twigs,
- understands
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- the defense tackled the running back and got the ball
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- will get away to the Bahamas for a vacation
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- bails,
- bails out,
- books
- [slang],
- buggers off
- [British slang],
- bugs off,
- bugs out,
- buzzes (off),
- clears off
- [chiefly British],
- clears out,
- cuts out,
- departs,
- digs out,
- exits,
- gets off,
- goes,
- goes off,
- moves,
- packs (up or off),
- parts,
- peels off,
- pikes (out or off),
- pulls out,
- pushes off,
- pushes on,
- quits,
- runs along,
- sallies (forth),
- scarpers
- [British],
- shoves (off),
- steps (along),
- takes off,
- vamooses,
- walks out
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- beats it,
- hits the road,
- pulls stakes
- (or pulls up stakes),
- takes a hike
- (also takes a walk),
- takes a powder
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- you may have won this game, but I'll get you next time
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- beats,
- bests,
- conquers,
- defeats,
- dispatches,
- does down
- [British],
- gets around,
- licks,
- masters,
- overbears,
- overcomes,
- overmatches,
- prevails (over),
- skunks,
- stops,
- subdues,
- surmounts,
- takes,
- trims,
- triumphs (over),
- upends,
- wins (against),
- worsts
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- edges (out),
- noses out,
- pips
- [British]
- annihilates,
- blows away,
- blows out,
- bombs,
- breaks,
- buries,
- clobbers,
- creams,
- crushes,
- drubs,
- finishes,
- flattens,
- overwhelms,
- routs,
- shellacs,
- skins,
- slaughters,
- smokes
- [slang],
- snows under,
- thrashes,
- trounces,
- upsets,
- wallops,
- waxes
- [slang],
- whips
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- I've been trying all day, but I can't get either of them in order to ask the question
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- acquaints,
- advises,
- apprises,
- briefs,
- clues,
- enlightens,
- familiarizes,
- fills in,
- informs,
- instructs,
- notifies,
- tells,
- wises (up)
- buzzes,
- calls,
- phones,
- rings (up)
- [chiefly British],
- telephones
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- "I'll get you if you talk to the cops," the loan shark warned
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- assassinates,
- bumps off,
- croaks
- [slang],
- dispatches,
- does in,
- executes,
- ices
- [slang],
- knocks off,
- liquidates,
- murders,
- neutralizes,
- offs
- [slang],
- puts away,
- rubs out,
- slays,
- snuffs,
- takes out,
- terminates,
- whacks
- [slang]
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- what gets me is why she would do such a weird thing
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“Gets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gets. Accessed 24 Jan. 2022.
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