gotten

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The Mike Vrabel Situation Has Gotten Very Awkward in New England: In an ideal world, the fiasco involving the Patriots coach and Dianna Russini could be a private matter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

"What if you had never left? If you hadn't left like that, and we just grew up together, would I still have looked for you? Would we have dated? Broken up? Gotten married?"

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2023

Let me get right to your 1967 question, since it pertains indirectly to He Who Shall Not Be Gotten Rid Of By Jokes, Memes, or Insults.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2018

This season, Hannah accepted a teaching gig at an unnamed college in upstate New York, and, this week, Vulture ran a post with the headline “Hannah on Girls Could Not Have Gotten That Job.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2017

Jonah could just imagine it: Gotten any strange mail lately?

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix