as in to admit
to offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) to
a top law-school grad who was received by the firm with open arms
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Recent Examples of receive
The annual milestone arrives just as the Delta Conveyance Project received federal clearance to advance construction this week.
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Reeti Malhotra
june 5, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2026
Annie receives French lessons as a gift from her oldest friend Candace for putting her family up in their guest house as Candace’s home is being renovated.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
Your 8th House of Intimacy receives gentle support as the temperamental Moon connects in a sextile with vulnerable Chiron in your 10th House of Career and Status.
—Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 June 2026
Taipei last received red pandas from a zoo in China's Fujian province in 2014, according to the Taipei Times.
—ABC News, 6 June 2026
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Reeti Malhotra
june 5, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2026
Annie receives French lessons as a gift from her oldest friend Candace for putting her family up in their guest house as Candace’s home is being renovated.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
Your 8th House of Intimacy receives gentle support as the temperamental Moon connects in a sextile with vulnerable Chiron in your 10th House of Career and Status.
—Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 June 2026
Taipei last received red pandas from a zoo in China's Fujian province in 2014, according to the Taipei Times.
—ABC News, 6 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for receive
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An 89-72 win over the expansion Portland Fire on Sunday to close a 1-2 homestand felt more necessary than the Sparks might have wanted to admit.—
Marisa Ingemi,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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Trying to process what had happened was difficult in the immediate aftermath, Calzini admits.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
7 June 2026
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Nowhere is this perhaps clearer than in her first book, published in 1941, just as the United States entered World War II.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
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Ramaphosa said Sunday that around 450,000 people trying to enter South Africa without documents had been stopped at the border in the last year.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 June 2026
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Next week, vote counts will take place Tuesday, June 16 and Thursday, June 18.—
Steve Scauzillo,
Daily News,
9 June 2026
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The Mystics came right back, taking the lead 76-75 after a late foul.—
Ian Miller,
FOXNews.com,
9 June 2026
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“Receive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/receive. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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