as in spreads
to become known
it got about that the company was having financial difficulties
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Recent Examples of gets about
Geographically, Qnity gets about 13% of its sales from the Americas, 8% from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), 34% from China, and the remaining roughly 45% from the rest of Asia.
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Jeff Marks, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
The group visited France, which gets about 70% of its electricity from nuclear power.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
Spain, one of Europe's front runners in renewable energy, gets about 46% of its power from solar and wind, according to the think tank Ember— sometimes more than 70%.
—Julia Simon, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
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
Jeff Marks, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
The group visited France, which gets about 70% of its electricity from nuclear power.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
Spain, one of Europe's front runners in renewable energy, gets about 46% of its power from solar and wind, according to the think tank Ember— sometimes more than 70%.
—Julia Simon, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
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
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Influenza, commonly known as the flu, spreads through close contact with people who are already sick with the virus or by touching objects with the virus on them.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
15 Oct. 2025
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Cells are so complex, however, that getting a sense of how one protein’s failure spreads through the system is tough.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
14 Oct. 2025
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Similar alarms are ringing for ocean currents, where freshwater ice melt is slowing down a major marine highway that circulates heat, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC.—
Alexandra A Phillips,
The Conversation,
13 Oct. 2025
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Once the washing is done, the drying system circulates warm air – 110 °F (43 °C) – through carpet fibers, drying up to 400 sq ft of carpet in around two hours.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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Lindell handles very ugly, difficult matchups and usually comes out on top, regardless of who he’s partnered with.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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But that ending reveal, which comes out of nowhere and leads us straight into the credits with no time to process it, will continue to spark debates for decades.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
7 Oct. 2025
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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
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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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