Synonyms of got about

got about

verb

past tense of get about

as in spread

to become known

it got about that the company was having financial difficulties

Synonyms & Similar Words

• spread
• circulated
• got out
• came out
• got around
• got round
• leaked (out)
• told
• unfolded
• broke
• revealed
• outed
• developed
• disclosed
• transpired
• spilled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suppressed
• concealed
• hid
• hushed (up)
• disguised
• masked
• secreted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of got about

He's got about $20 million in the bank ahead of his mayoral run. — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

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