get at
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This has led AI experts and the policymakers who listen to them to propose remedies that don’t get at its real and present dangers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Moreover, a monthly print isn’t self-explaining: Officials have to strip out special factors to get at the underlying trend, which is what Warsh said at Jackson Hole he was watching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Much of that is due to the recent record warmth of the near-shore ocean, as the water temperature essentially sets the floor for how cold it will get at night along the coast, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
"We came up with a somewhat ingenious set of methods to get at something very difficult to analyze in the fossil record."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
If we couldn’t thin-slice—if you really had to know someone for months and months to get at their true selves—then Apollo 13 would be robbed of its drama and Splash would not be funny.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
