GETS ON Synonyms: 96 Similar and Opposite Words

gets on

verb

present tense third-person singular of get on

as in copes

to meet one's day-to-day needs despite his new job's low pay, he was still getting on

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as in progresses

to move forward along a course find out how the marketing department is getting on with the new ad campaign

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Recent Examples of gets on Ask any company that quietly panics every time its founder gets on a plane. — Shann Biglione, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 On any other network, in any other circumstance, that show [likely] gets on the air. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026 Dinner gets on the table faster. — Kansas City Star, 1 May 2026 Kyle says a teary good-bye to everyone, gets on a boat, and is let out in the deep blue water, heading back to civilization, heading over each rocking swell, not into the future, but somehow into the past. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026 Twice thwarted, Beth sighs, says yes, and gets on with the business of living. — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2026 At one point, Bill Walker gets on the phone with someone. — Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025 Dern defends takedowns at 25 percent, and her comfort level on the ground could be her downfall if Jandiroba gets on top of her every round. — Brett Appley, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025 Billy reluctantly goes along with it, while Mary, watching far away in Scotland, folds her disappointment up like laundry and gets on with business of waiting for her two friends to snap out of it. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gets on

Verb

Hollis buries herself in work in an attempt to escape her complicated grief, while aspiring filmmaker Caroline copes by making snarky remarks and bristling at her mom's efforts to connect.

— Clarissa Cruz, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
Gemini copes through logic and distraction, while Pisces feels everything at once.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026

Definition of copes

Verb

Bruce’s family, including Moore and his wife Emma Heming Willis, continue to care for him as his condition progresses.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 14 Aug. 2026
We are given a glimpse of events and then drawn into a deeper understanding of them as the story progresses.

— Deborah Johnson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of progresses

Verb

That’s around $5 billion, more than eight times the amount collected in fees, and the lead left gets by far the biggest portion.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 June 2026
Josh, who wants to be an investigative journalist, is an idealist in a PBS T-shirt (and with a PBS tote bag) who gets by on family money and is incapable of taking care of himself in any practical way.

— Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026

Definition of gets by

Verb

About 52% of A to Z’s roughly 65-person core team identifies as female, as does about 55% of management, according to Prosenjak.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
That needs to change, Styninger said, as does the splitting of industry oversight between different parts of state government.

— Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of does

Verb

Who gets along with who, who is fighting with who, and how the dynamics within the family have shifted.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 July 2026
While on Field Trips with volunteers, Diamond has also proven to be an extremely great walker, calm in the car and gets along great with kids and other dogs who match her serene lifestyle.

— Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of gets along

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This makes things all the more disorienting when, near the final act, Greg’s leg is chomped off by an allosaurus mid-mallet-fight, before the dino proceeds to eat him headfirst.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026
Lotto proceeds in Colorado fund programs for parks, wildlife and school construction.

— Katie Langford, Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of proceeds

Verb

The Royal Parks charity, which manages Richmond Park, where the incident took place over the weekend, warned that human behavior is endangering the lives of the deer who have resided there for centuries.

— Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
At least one of the kittens was still alive when it was thrown, said Tracy Flaherty, who manages the Dairy Queen on Library Road.

— Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of manages

Verb

And using an Enterprise Brain would assist as well with a memory that goes across the company.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
The financial transaction is complete, the tax benefit is secured, and the question of where the money actually goes slides quietly to the bottom of the to-do list.

— Nick Allardice, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026