gets out

verb

present tense third-person singular of get out
1
as in spreads
to become known news of the rock star's secret wedding got out to the news media

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2
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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3
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 Tommy Edman hits a three-run home run and Tanner Scott gets out of a ninth-inning jam in a 6-5 win over the Washington Nationals with Shohei Ohtani out. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026 The problem arises when anger becomes a fixation and gets out of control. — 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 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
  1. spreads
  2. escapes
  3. publishes
  4. circulates
  5. flees
  6. prints
  7. comes out
  8. flies
Verb
  • Once personal information spreads to people-search sites and data brokers, cutting down those profiles can help put some distance between you and anyone trying to build a convincing story around your life.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Rather than relying on one generation source, the plan spreads the capacity across three projects with different roles and development timelines.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of spreads
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  • Google doesn’t assign CVE designations for V8 sandbox escapes.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
  • One player may receive a yellow card for two offences, while another escapes after committing many more.
    — Graham Scott, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of escapes
Verb
  • Clearly more advanced than the average schoolgirls, the two enter a competition sponsored by the Shueisha publishing house, whose editor (Masaki Suda) recognizes their talents and publishes their first story.
    — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Her cookbook, Spanglish, a love letter to bicultural Puerto Rican cooking, publishes May 19, 2026.
    — Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of publishes
Verb
  • Today, the conditions are different, shaped by a globalized and hyper-connected image economy where everything circulates at once and at speed.
    — Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
  • However, in a convection oven, a fan at the back of the unit circulates the hot air created by the heating elements for more even distribution.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of circulates
Verb
  • When David flees before the FBI can arrest him, Teagan and her mother, Ella (Jessica Paré), are blindsided, and are forced to leave their affluent Los Angeles community for Ella’s hometown, Eagle’s Cove, a fictional town in Massachusetts.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
  • But that’s not the property’s only claim to fame; the home also appeared in The Undoing, when Grace (played by Nicole Kidman) flees to the beach after her husband (Hugh Grant) goes missing.
    — Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of flees
Verb
  • In duplication or mirror mode, the machine prints up to four identical parts simultaneously, effectively quadrupling batch output without needing to ramp up raw print speed.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The unexpected electrical issue at the facility that prints The Sacramento Bee and several other regional publications resulted in Monday’s newspaper being distributed digitally only.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of prints
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  • Now, smart underwear is making a case for paying closer attention to what comes out of your body.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
  • It was directed by Janus Metz (All the Old Knives) and comes out September 25.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of comes out
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  • Chaparral flies autonomously Elroy Air completed a new series of autonomous, uncrewed flight tests of its Chaparral cargo aircraft under the US Department of Transportation and FAA’s eIPP project.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Related Stories The festival traditionally flies all the flags representing directors with films in the selection from flagpoles on the Palazzo del Cinema, where the gala screenings take place every night.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of flies

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“Gets out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gets%20out. Accessed 11 Sep. 2026.

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