as in to spread
to become known
it got about that the company was having financial difficulties
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It’s got about half the caffeine of a cup of coffee and a nice coconut flavor thanks to a bit of powdered coconut milk, and, importantly for a mushroom coffee, not too much fungi flavor despite the inclusion of lion’s mane, reishi, and cordyceps.
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Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Beauvillier and Strome, typically with Ovechkin as their left wing, have been highly effective and highly productive across both games — and that’s after only getting about 24 minutes together in the regular season.
—Arpon Basu, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Currently, 9 of 10 Americans over 65 get Social Security, getting about $2,000 a month, about 50% of retirement income for 44% of all women and 40% of men.
—Stanley S. Litow, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
The Worx should get about 10 minutes on the high-speed setting and about 25 minutes on the low-speed setting.
—Nena Farrell, Wired News, 19 Apr. 2025
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Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Beauvillier and Strome, typically with Ovechkin as their left wing, have been highly effective and highly productive across both games — and that’s after only getting about 24 minutes together in the regular season.
—Arpon Basu, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Currently, 9 of 10 Americans over 65 get Social Security, getting about $2,000 a month, about 50% of retirement income for 44% of all women and 40% of men.
—Stanley S. Litow, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
The Worx should get about 10 minutes on the high-speed setting and about 25 minutes on the low-speed setting.
—Nena Farrell, Wired News, 19 Apr. 2025
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Biden's cancer is characterized as having a Gleason score of 9, grade group 5, which would mean the cells look very different from healthy cells and are likely to grow and spread more quickly.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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Measles was fully eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, according to the CDC, meaning the virus was not spreading within the country and new cases only came from people who contracted measles abroad and returned to the U.S.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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In recent months, ongoing speculation about his mental health has circulated following several vulnerable social media posts.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
14 May 2025
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While Brady didn't cite the line directly, it was widely circulated online.—
Tahar Rajab,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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Luckily, all the scammers got out of me was a quick bite on the end of their phishing lure.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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The Oilers got out in front early, scoring just 1:27 into the game off the stick of Adam Henrique, his second goal of the playoffs, which turned out to be all the Oilers would need.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
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The Boise City Council made the Pride flag a city flag Tuesday to get around a new state law.—
Carolyn Komatsoulis,
Idaho Statesman,
7 May 2025
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This bill also gets around the concerns of the school choice movement that bringing in the federal government could come with strings attached for private schools and homeschoolers.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
7 May 2025
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