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get
verb as in come into possession of; achieve
Strongest matches
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
Strongest match
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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Weak match
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
High anxiety — that’s the state of mind among Americans as the holiday shopping season gets underway in what’s been a tumultuous year.
His AI experiments get more bizarre by the day, and his SpaceX projects, which include driverless cybercabs, have been repeatedly delayed.
Her question —”Can cooking all day actually be fun?” — got me thinking.
Sir Terence struggled to get government support for the procedure.
Extra cash is being used to employ existing staff to work at weekends or in the evenings to get more people through the system.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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