GETS OUT Synonyms: 97 Similar and Opposite Words

gets out

verb

present tense third-person singular of get out

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 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

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The disease, which spreads through bites and scratches from infected animals, is most commonly carried by bats, foxes, raccoons and skunks.

— Gagandeep Singh, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Rabies spreads through the saliva of an infected animal, usually through a bite.

— Nayara Batschke, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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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

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As the warm water sits still at the top, oxygen no longer circulates to the bottom.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
After washing, the appliance can move through steam sanitization and hot-air drying before entering a 72-hour antibacterial storage mode, which circulates filtered air to help keep cleaned parts dry and ready for use.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of circulates

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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

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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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What follows moves from the raw repair-cost numbers, into the plan math, into who actually comes out ahead, and finally into the maintenance habits that shift the odds without eliminating them.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026
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

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