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as in masters
to achieve a victory over
somehow, an inexperienced lawyer managed to get around the media giant's stable of high-priced legal eagles
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as in circumvents
to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness
somehow she managed to get around the rules for paying the sales tax on a car bought out of state
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as in spreads
to become known
word of the discovery of gold quickly got around
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as in avoids
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
their lawyer has spent months trying to get around certain restrictions in the contract
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Recent Examples of gets around
That’s also a long story, which Hokum eventually gets around to filling in the blanks.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
30 Apr. 2026
The cathedral gets around 6 million visitors per year.
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ABC News,
5 Mar. 2026
Shenfield, who hasn’t owned a car since 2021, primarily gets around on foot.
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Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
Soon enough, word gets around that a mysterious missile has been launched from the Pacific Ocean and the realization of the consequences set in, especially when it’s determined that the thing is hitting a city in a matter of 18 minutes.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
This approach gets around certain plasma confinement challenges faced by tokamaks, which arise from variations in magnetic coil density around the toroidal ring.
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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.
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Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
30 Apr. 2026
The cathedral gets around 6 million visitors per year.
—
ABC News,
5 Mar. 2026
Shenfield, who hasn’t owned a car since 2021, primarily gets around on foot.
—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
Soon enough, word gets around that a mysterious missile has been launched from the Pacific Ocean and the realization of the consequences set in, especially when it’s determined that the thing is hitting a city in a matter of 18 minutes.
—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gets around
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Finally, Kim masters the steps and takes to the stage with confidence, as her family cheers her on!
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Levy masters one hilarious perplexed comedic reaction after another as Nicky, a closeted pastor with a zany, highly dysfunctional family.
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Sea Change reads as an intimate character study, one that circumvents familiar narratives of Asian intergenerational trauma in favor of a more complicated reckoning.
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RevMed’s daraxonrasib cleverly circumvents this problem by acting as a molecular stickum.
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With the end of the month fast approaching, the migrant exodus has continued as fear of further mob attacks spreads through poor neighborhoods and informal settlements.
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Health officials said that West Nile virus typically spreads through the bite of an infected Culex mosquito.
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New research has now demonstrated a simpler approach that avoids the ultrathin selective coatings traditionally considered essential for precise molecular separation.
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The decision avoids an election-year change in the voting rules and may bolster Democrats in the fall election.
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And a strangeness suddenly overcomes me.
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These families show that love overcomes differences.
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Panthalassa evades these regional regulatory and environmental obstacles by deploying autonomous computing nodes directly into deep water.
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And though bound together as one 10-county region, the Hudson Valley actively evades a uniform identity.
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As blood circulates through your smallest vessels, some fluid leaks out through the vessel walls into surrounding tissue.
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Locals create authenticity but do not necessarily control how that authenticity circulates or is monetized through tourism.
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The highest technology will not be the one that escapes nature but the one that learns how to participate in its deepest creative computation.
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On clear, dry nights — like those across much of the interior West — that heat escapes very efficiently into space.
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