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get

[get] / gɛt /






VERB
contact for communication
Synonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




VERB
produce offspring
Synonyms
Antonyms




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ByteDance also released one called Seed3D 2.0 in April, which it says improves on details that are hard for AI tools to get right, such as sharp edges and thin walls.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Rodgers clearly still had a lot to get off his chest during Tuesday’s show.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

"She was able to be safe and she got the life that she deserved eventually because she was fit to get out of the house," her mother said.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

“El-Sayed doesn’t have that. But I do think he’s got the skill and the right language to get him over.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Phineas went from being "the most efficient and capable foreman" on the railroad to a man who couldn't be trusted because he couldn't get along with anyone.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Then he says, ‘We must be keerful, For the cider’s gittin low.’

From Time Oct. 15, 2015

When the butchering is over Then the farmer feels so-so; But he’s always sort of worried, Fears the cider’s gittin low.

From Time Oct. 15, 2015

Which, as she was born in the Bronx, is pronounced "We gittin they!"

From The Guardian Aug. 31, 2014

“Hush, now. Luster gone to git de surrey en take you to de graveyard. We aint gwine risk gittin yo cap,” she said.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

“Listen to me, Jeth; you’re gittin to be a sizable boy. There’s goin’ to be a lot of things in the years ahead that you’ll have to stand.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

And, failing that, it at least looks nice -- and gets people thinking.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

“It can’t just be the status quo, and I think he gets that.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Bonus season has become an annual, anxious ritual on Wall Street, involving weeks of managers hashing out who gets what slice of the pool.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Whether it gets made, he said, depends on whether the fund materializes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

We move through the day up some frozen rivers and across some frozen lakes and when it gets dark again we come into the first of twenty checkpoints.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

The 37-year-old star appeared onstage wearing a traditional Korean hat known as a "gat", featured in Netflix's animated megahit "KPop Demon Hunters".

From Barron's Nov. 1, 2025

Sussy’s second defining feature is his love of hats, namely a tall, jaunty gat, similar to the ones that the Saja Boys wear in the Underworld and in their performance of “Your Idol.”

From Salon Jul. 2, 2025

In this Bonnie & Clyde, female ambition is more dangerous than a loaded gat.

From Slate Dec. 6, 2013

As Bogart aged, he lost his defiance, leaving Warner Brothers for Columbia and trading his gat for a bow tie.

From New York Times Oct. 8, 2010

Faith, sh'ase eaten something, that will not easily down; Whether she gat it at home, or abroad in the town Ich cannot tell.

From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Art, Mr. S. Mr. of

Max , 32, chuckled Wednesday when informed of that wisecrack, conceding that he’s got some pretty stiff competition in his family.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Dissent got louder after the twin quakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24, killing over 6,000 people and decimating hundreds of buildings.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

"She was able to be safe and she got the life that she deserved eventually because she was fit to get out of the house," her mother said.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

It also meant that for the first time in the decade and a half since I first got a smartphone, I’d be forced to disconnect.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

“It sounds like you’ve got some Disney-fied expectations of Sandy June’s —and dating in general. Dreaming is important, but real life, the way it comes at you sideways, is always going to be a surprise.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The sun on it, the salt, the particular blue no postcard has ever gotten right — it reconnects me to my own being, returns me to whatever I was before the world got complicated.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

I had met Kyle briefly in passing and thought he was attractive, but other than that 15-second encounter, I have never gotten to know him.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Mercer, 59 years old, also hasn’t gotten a follow-up scan that a doctor ordered after a mammogram in December turned up a concerning spot.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

How has this problem gotten worse over time?

From Slate Jul. 31, 2026

Frowning and looking surprised, Grandpa said, “What’s gotten into him?”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

He learned that the friend who had introduced him to Late Stage was getting similar messages in his account.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

There are posh parties, through which some of the young characters pass, though no one is doing cocaine or getting murdered.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Due to the national shortage of cattle, Gropper is getting record prices for his.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Because, frankly, the issues that civilians face from panopticontent are not the same as a global star’s, and they’re only getting worse.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2026

She’s also been opinionated about Rhys lately, entertaining all kinds of rumors, which is getting on my nerves.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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