gets out

present tense third-person singular of get out

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gets out 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 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
Verb
  • Tell me what the heck a gross bacterium that spreads disease has to do with sunscreen.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Candida auris is a type of yeast that can cause severe illness and spreads easily among patients with serious medical conditions in health care facilities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
    Emma Koppelman, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Odysseus blinds the Cyclops and escapes Circe with the help of a magic herb, but not before losing some of his men.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • This week's quiz spotlights summer escapes and remarkable love stories.
    Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Her lab publishes a curriculum for adolescents on the risks of oral tobacco and other drugs.
    Joseph Kim, NPR, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The multidisciplinary, fully gold-open-access journal publishes research results across all IEEE fields of interest.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • The $438 billion Gallup figure circulates primarily as a workforce engagement headline.
    Cindy Rodriguez Constable, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • As footage of the incident circulates on social media, Patterson said the footage is just one perspective of the encounter.
    Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • After desecrating the statue, the vandal returns the hammer to his pocket, scales the fence and flees into the night, the footage shows.
    Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Rhaena flees the four-way dragon scrum on foot only to be dragged back by her uncle.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • This was all doable without creating any overhangs, so the whole thing still prints without needing supports.
    Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • Those limits determine how much material reaches refiners and manufacturers, regardless of how much ore comes out of the ground.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026
  • And Cody still comes out before the season starts and takes BP, hooks up the kids with some Nike stuff.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile, a team quietly burning tokens on work that moves nothing flies under the radar.
    Vinay Kuruvila, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • About 200 of those flights are handled by Mercy Air, a for-profit service that flies patients and bills their insurers for the costs.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Gets out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gets%20out. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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