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get at

verb as in attain

verb as in mean, intend

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The battle between the state and its biggest city gets at one of the thorniest obstacles to solving the state’s housing problems.

After he was flown to Los Angeles last year, Jones said he talked to a therapist for the first time in his life, which helped get at the root of his drug habit.

“It’s so tactile and real. No matter how good robots get at a theme park, they’ll never replace the interaction you have with an actor.”

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We need to get at them more as we did in the first half and dominated much more.

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That gap of 1.3 million gets at a problem totally distinct from an overall shortage of homes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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