got about

verb

past tense of get about
as in spread
to become known it got about that the company was having financial difficulties

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Recent Examples of got about Flight tracking data show the helicopter left Catalina’s Pebbly Beach heliport and got about 175 feet above sea level about eight seconds into its flight before rapidly descending. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Schlossberg, who got about 10 percent of the vote, fled to his mother Caroline Kennedy’s house on Martha’s Vineyard for the summer to heal his wounds. — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026 Cherry-Prime got about 46% of the vote, while Mack got about 40%. — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026 Fujimori garnered just over 17% of the votes while Sánchez got about 12% in a crowded field of candidates in the first round of voting in April. — ABC News, 1 June 2026 Cavanagh got about $20 million worth of company stock in March, as per usual. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2026 Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of DHS, got about $86 billion. — Anne Toomey McKenna, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026 The Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn home was first put on the market in October 2025 for $7,995,000, and was later reduced to $7,300,000 in January 2026, meaning the buyers got about $1 million off the original asking price. — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026 Bloomington got about a half-inch less. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for got about
  1. spread
  2. circulated
  3. got out
  4. came out
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  • Infrastructure on this scale needs a dedicated body that can keep pace with the technology and draw on the expertise already spread across existing agencies.
    — Neil Chatterjee, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Nigeria’s health minister, Muhammad Ali Pate, said authorities had found no evidence that the virus had spread into communities.
    — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of spread
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  • From here, heated water is circulated to fan coil units (FCUs) to circulate warm air throughout the poultry house.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • But some immigration advocates feel the reforms did not go far enough and have not been circulated widely.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of circulated
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  • Igoe said the suspect vehicle then stopped on Fulton Avenue, where the suspect got out and started pacing back and forth with a knife in his hand in front of his vehicle.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The suspect got out of the vehicle and began pacing in front of it, authorities said.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of got out
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  • Introduced in 2001, the shoe came out of Harajuku’s creative movement and quickly became a cultural touchstone.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Ever since his days as an architect of the southern-soul sound that came out of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the 1960s, the songwriter and legendary session musician has built his career on innately understanding what a song needs.
    — Chris Stanton, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of came out

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