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Many get married; some have children; careers can start to take off.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
But Meta’s revenue is more modest than that of its competitors and its cash burn could easily get much worse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Whether the slow-moving trainwreck can get back on track.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
There is no way to get back the money given to early retirees; the only questions are how to spread out the burden over time and how to finance this share of the shortfall.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
“I’m sure that’s just a coincidence. Maybe we can get her to close the shop early?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
Instead of receiving the actual electricity, the gaming company gets renewable-energy certificates, and each member’s share is recorded commensurate to the amount of power the company estimates they use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Peter’s inner despair gets externalized when he invents a genetic inhibitor neck implant to tamp down his sensitivity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"There's a lot of people that are taking a cut from what the customer pays in the supermarket before any of it gets back to the farmer," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
So there’s a roll yield — a return in the price the fund gets, which is the difference between the expiring contract and the new one.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
He ducks under the garage door, but his spiked-up hair gets smushed on the way out.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
They’re often depicted in traditional black hanbok and tall gat hats, which explains the Saja Boys’ costuming later in the movie.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 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
Bud I set off agean at t’run, Fer I weel understood, If I gat owt fra that there clan, It woddant do ma good.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by Wright, William Aldis
If you buy Nike, you’ve got to say you’re expecting a real turnaround, when actually you’ve got people like Amer and all these other people coming for Nike’s lunch.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
They look through it from the lens of, “We’ve got to have success for this business, not a bunch of tactical stuff that needs to get done.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
From day one Chinchar thought "we got something".
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
“It’s got a lot riding on it,” said Steve Granelli, a teaching professor and division head of communication studies at Northeastern University.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Silently he got up, dressed, and went to the stables in a hurry, followed by a few curious people.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Salon asked if he had one favorite thing that he’d gotten to do because he was Lenny Kaye.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
Meta also has gotten creative about keeping billions of dollars of borrowing off its balance sheet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Have you ever gotten a medical bill that you weren’t expecting?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
And they’ve gotten smarter than the used-gum, spit-cup abstinence proponents of my youth.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
“I went to see your mother this morning. She mentioned that you two have gotten friendly. She seemed pleased about it.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
For instance, “If you contribute 4% and your employer is going to match that 4%,” that’s like getting a 100% return on your contribution.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Kurosawa is also of two minds regarding what he frequently hears from Japanese film students, that their goal is getting into top festivals, winning awards and securing global recognition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Your appetite has been sharpened by sun, distance and swimming, and what you unwrap tastes less like something that survived the journey than something that has been quietly getting ready for you.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
The AMN said it was alerted to Strong getting into difficulties in the water off the Atlantic coast in southern Portugal at 11.33 BST on Monday.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Dad says, getting up from his chair to make his way over to her.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
