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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 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 After testimony was complete, each side got about an hour to make their closing argument to the jury. — Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 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
Verb
  • For measles, populations need vaccination rates of 95 percent or higher to achieve herd immunity—the level of protection required to prevent disease spread.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Yet the ongoing disruptions from the Iran war, which have pushed up average gas prices more than 7% from just a month ago, threaten to spread through the economy and keep broader inflation stubbornly high.
    — DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFFFROM WIRE REPORTS, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of spread
Verb
  • Stories — real or not — circulated in the 19th and early 20th centuries of White people using Black children as bait while hunting in Florida’s swamps.
    — Matt Baker, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the paper was circulated across the company’s dealership network, with many dealers putting a copy of the Independent in the glove box of every new car.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of circulated
Verb
  • Fortunately for the Television Academy, before criticism of this year’s NBC ceremony could reach any sort of critical mass, word got out that Amazon’s Prime Video is in talks to take over the Emmycast.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
  • They would be left stranded, however, as Hoffman and lefty Anthony Gose got out of the jam.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of got out
Verb
  • Recchia’s second novel, Io che ti ho voluto così bene (I, who loved you so much), came out in Italy last year.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The star quarterback came out before the end of the first half.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of came out

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