GETTING AROUND Synonyms: 182 Similar and Opposite Words

getting around

verb

present participle of get around

as in overcoming

to achieve a victory over somehow, an inexperienced lawyer managed to get around the media giant's stable of high-priced legal eagles

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as in circumventing

to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness somehow she managed to get around the rules for paying the sales tax on a car bought out of state

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as in spreading

to become known word of the discovery of gold quickly got around

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as in avoiding

to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery their lawyer has spent months trying to get around certain restrictions in the contract

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Recent Examples of getting around Currently, getting around requires a buggy, but bicycles for each villa will be arriving soon. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 There’s no getting around the fact that friends of weed often become friends of incivility, then crime. — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026 No getting around pitching problem Around midseason, Colorado seemed poised to avoid becoming only the fifth MLB franchise to lose 100-plus games four years in a row. — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2026 Aaron Turpen / New Atlas For those in the back seat, well, there’s no getting around the tininess of the EX30. — New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026 Some took to social media to post images of barricaded roads and ask for advice about getting around. — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026 Rutschman said some of his former Orioles teammates chirped at him throughout the game and gave him a hard time about getting around the ballpark as a visiting player. — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 For now, however, the focus for students is simply getting around campus. — Usa Today, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 East Boston neighbors can't seem to avoid parking tickets after a litany of road closures makes getting around the neighborhood extremely difficult. — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for getting around

Verb

The Dolphins had plenty more opportunities after Gordon’s penalty to right the ship, overcoming the challenges that the team’s second-half belly-flop presented.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 1 Nov. 2026
The Knicks got into the win column for the first time this season by overcoming a 13-point deficit in Tuesday’s home victory against the Detroit Pistons.

— Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of overcoming

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All three said West Point appears to be circumventing the judge's ruling by using a different justification to continue to enforce its speech rules.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
The company also noted that its models have become better at circumventing some safety techniques, including by concealing their objectives or behaviors.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of circumventing

Verb

What Florida would be choosing School vaccination requirements help communities establish herd immunity, which is when enough people are vaccinated to prevent a disease from easily spreading.

— Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
These methods gained prominence in France during the 2016 labor protests before spreading further during the Yellow Vest movement.

— Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of spreading

Verb

Kushner so far has participated little in the ceremony of the job, avoiding most receptions and ribbon cuttings.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Exercise, avoiding alcohol or even getting enough sleep aren’t the factors most connected to college students’ well-being.

— Roxanne Prichard, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of avoiding

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Fernandes points out the prevalence of tactical voting — when voters abandon their preferred candidate for one with a better chance of winning or defeating a rival — as an explanation for the first-round surprise in early October.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
Eisenkot argued that Israel needed to concentrate its military resources on defeating Hamas in the south before embarking on another major conflict.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of defeating

Verb

With little information circulating about the duo, the anonymity surrounding February’s Album only adds to its sense of mystery.

— Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 27 Oct. 2026
Unlike existing treatments that primarily neutralize IgE circulating in the bloodstream, the company aims to detach IgE from immune cells.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of circulating

Verb

Key Takeaways Anthropic used Claude to generate training datasets that made other AI models exhibit misaligned behavior while evading safety monitors.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
Nvidia said that Megaspeed had already been investigated for evading export controls.

— Kif Leswing, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2026