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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  • The leachate is byproduct of an underground garbage fire that has only spread since it was first confirmed in 2023.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
  • If that model spreads, shoppers may set rules once and let agents transact repeatedly without a per-order click.
    — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of spread
Verb
  • Images circulated daily on social media of children killed as collateral damage in strikes on Hamas targets.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Hollywood star Zendaya made a surprise appearance at Folsom High School’s football game Friday night, drawing attention from students and fans after photos and videos of her visit circulated on social media.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of circulated
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  • On one April night outside the castle, several picketers were struck by a patron’s car, and a few others were shoved by the passenger who got out of the vehicle, according to video footage later aired by Fox 11 Los Angeles.
    — Alessandra Schade, Vanity Fair, 28 Oct. 2026
  • When the driver got out, one of the men chased him down the street.
    — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of got out
Verb
  • The former Long Beach police chief, Luna came out of retirement to run for sheriff in 2022, arguing that incumbent Alex Villanueva had taken the department in the wrong direction.
    — Times staff, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Australia had allowed Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to drill a major new natural gas field there with the requirement that the companies buried at least 80% of the CO2 that came out of the ground with it.
    — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of came out

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