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as in spreads
to become known
news of the rock star's secret wedding got out to the news media
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as in escapes
to get free from a dangerous or confining situation
tried but couldn't get out of the old well without assistance
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as in publishes
to produce and release for distribution in printed form
a romance novelist who got a new book out every year
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Recent Examples of gets out
The problem arises when anger becomes a fixation and gets out of control.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
Video shows Rocky did eventually return to his own yard, and a child holding a blanket can be seen chasing the dog before a woman gets out of a black SUV parked in the road.
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Katie Houlis,
CBS News,
9 May 2026
In the initial script, Becket gets out of jail with Ruth, who had given birth to their child while he was incarcerated, waiting for him.
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Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2026
Texas leads when government gets out of the way—AI for prosperity, not control.
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Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
Invent a drinking game to keep guests interested if the game gets out of hand.
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Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
The secret gets out After a season at Southern Miss in 2019, Faulkner’s big break finally came when Kirby Smart hired him to coach quarterbacks at Georgia — 20 years after the two men first met.
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Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
Park stages Man-su’s homicide attempts as slapstick set pieces in which our clumsy antihero himself barely gets out alive.
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Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda gets out of a Tesla Motor’s Roadster electric car with Tesla Motors Chief Exective Officer Elon Musk (behind car) upon their arrival at a news conference in Tokyo November 12, 2010.
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Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
Video shows Rocky did eventually return to his own yard, and a child holding a blanket can be seen chasing the dog before a woman gets out of a black SUV parked in the road.
—
Katie Houlis,
CBS News,
9 May 2026
In the initial script, Becket gets out of jail with Ruth, who had given birth to their child while he was incarcerated, waiting for him.
—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2026
Texas leads when government gets out of the way—AI for prosperity, not control.
—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
Invent a drinking game to keep guests interested if the game gets out of hand.
—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
The secret gets out After a season at Southern Miss in 2019, Faulkner’s big break finally came when Kirby Smart hired him to coach quarterbacks at Georgia — 20 years after the two men first met.
—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
Park stages Man-su’s homicide attempts as slapstick set pieces in which our clumsy antihero himself barely gets out alive.
—
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda gets out of a Tesla Motor’s Roadster electric car with Tesla Motors Chief Exective Officer Elon Musk (behind car) upon their arrival at a news conference in Tokyo November 12, 2010.
—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gets out
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While no poultry or other species are currently affected, and Australia's international disease-free status holds, experts warn of severe consequences if the virus spreads to freshwater ducks.
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The most notable change occurred in 2025 with the addition of a 48-inch panoramic display that spreads across the entire dashboard.
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This one remains scoreless after some early tension, and Austria escapes a close call.
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How to Get There Remote escapes, by definition, are hard to reach, but the Northern Neck is accessible from a few cities.
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Pricing sits in the boutique tier rather than the budget tier, and the clinic publishes transparent figures on its cost of hair transplant in Turkey page.
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The Obama Foundation also publishes a list of contributors annually, though some are still kept anonymous.
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There, the partners of players are getting plenty of airtime of their own — all while taking and appearing in content that circulates for days on socials.
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Patricia wears a tiara and circulates dreamily, like a grownup Carrie at prom.
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With no idea what's going on, Dylan flees the FBC to find that the Hiss — otherworldly crimson monsters from another dimension — have overrun Manhattan.
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The original Ballerina – which was voiced in English by Elle Fanning and Dane DeHaan and in French by Camille Cottin and Malik Bentalha – followed a young girl who flees a rural orphanage to pursue her dream of becoming a ballerina at the Paris Grand Opera House.
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The most important machine used to manufacture chips is the lithography machine, which prints a chip’s nanoscale transistor patterns onto silicon.
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This is a company that prints more revenue every time the tape gets chaotic, and 2026 has given it plenty of chaos to work with.
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The May reading of the personal consumption expenditures price index also comes out.
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This comes out to an annual salary of $79,924.
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Here, a quilt flies over the spacious skies of Utah’s Dead Horse Point State Park (an area threatened by drilling permits approved by the US Bureau of Land Management) bearing Wes Gordon’s Georgia, Ashlynn Park’s Arkansas, and Sergio Hudson’s South Carolina, among others.
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The Lions are not typically a team that flies counter to recognizing social justice causes.
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