getting at
Example Sentences
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Working mum-of-three Kinza Butt said the free school meals her son was now getting at Blakenhale Juniors had lifted a "burden off the shoulders".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
What the novelist is getting at here resonates far beyond a single celebrity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Gailey of Bankrate recommends getting at least three quotes from different lenders on the same day so you can make an apples-to-apples comparison.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
“We’re getting at the cost structures through the organization to be able to address that, and that’s because of the AI initiatives we’re putting forward,” DeVeydt said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
I was able to deduce from their body language that they had made up and this made me pleased because it showed how much better I was getting at reading body language.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
