gets about

present tense third-person singular of get about

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Recent Examples of gets about Applied Materials gets about 25% of its sales in China. John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 And increased audiences would mean higher ad rates, which would help pay for the show (the TV Academy gets about $8 million a year for its license fee, split among the four networks). Michael Schneider, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025 Starlink gets about $9 million for 5,400 locations. PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025 China gets about 20 percent of its soybeans from the United States. Brett Samuels, The Hill, 11 Aug. 2025 Midland Care, a nonprofit organization in Topeka, gets about $9,000 a month for dual-eligible patients and about $7,000 for Medicaid-only patients, said Shawn Sullivan, Midland’s CEO. Suzanne King, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gets about
Verb
  • Over time, those stacked up into satellite radio interviews, then Blender magazine spreads, then Fox News spots and eventually phone calls from Universal.
    Chris Cardillo, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In about 1% of those infected, the disease spreads to other parts of the body, such as the brain, bones and other organs.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That quote of Welles throwing monumental shade at Woody Allen, which circulates on social media basically any time Allen does anything?
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Today, what circulates fastest are symbols, visual references from global culture that can be adapted to local struggles while remaining instantly recognizable elsewhere.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This standoff goes on for almost 10 minutes before the driver finally gets out and is escorted away.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The problem comes when inflation gets out of hand — when average prices go up faster than average wages are going up.
    Vivian Tu, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The review comes out in 1983 just as The Witches nears publication and a lunch is convened with his ex-mistress, new girlfriend and his British book publisher and sales director at his American publisher, who push him to make an apology.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Watching or listening to a case unfold, and then feeling that relief when the truth comes out or justice is served.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This approach gets around certain plasma confinement challenges faced by tokamaks, which arise from variations in magnetic coil density around the toroidal ring.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Per Yahoo Finance , their social media impressions are 40 million+ per month and their website gets around 300,000 visits in a month.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Gets about.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gets%20about. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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