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get
verb as in come into possession of; achieve
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bring, draw, earn, gain, grab, have, land, make, obtain, pick up, pull, realize, receive, score, take, win
Strong matches
access, accomplish, acquire, annex, attain, bag, capture, clear, compass, cop, educe, effect, elicit, evoke, extort, extract, fetch, glean, hustle, inherit, net, parlay, procure, reap, secure, snag, snowball, wangle
Weak matches
bring in, build up, buy into, buy off, buy out, cash in on, chalk up, clean up, come by, get hands on, lock up, make a buy, make a killing, rack up, snap up, succeed to
verb as in fall victim to, as a diseases
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Weak matches
be afflicted with, be given, be smitten by, become infected with, come down with, get sick
verb as in seize
verb as in come to be
verb as in understand
verb as in arrive
verb as in contact for communication
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verb as in arrange, manage desired goal
verb as in convince, induce
verb as in have an effect on
verb as in produce offspring
verb as in irritate, upset
Example Sentences
Females sleep less, wake up more often and get less restorative sleep than males, according to a new animal study by CU Boulder researchers.
Warm or cold, charming or sneering, gazing down from society’s top rung or desperately trying to get there, he is the craven soul of a corrupt social system.
She continued, “People are always saying what a nerd he is. But one thing that I love about Milhouse is he’s always getting knocked down, but he keeps getting up. I love the little guy.”
"He understands rugby and I believe Wales have got the best coach in the world to get us out of this."
“I think he has taken a very smart approach,” former foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba told me, “by clearly setting out the goal – ‘I’m going to fix it’ – but without getting into details.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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