get about
verb
got about; got about or gotten about; getting about; gets about
1
: to become current : circulate
2
: to be up and about : begin to walk
able to get about again
Examples of get about in a Sentence
it got about that the company was having financial difficulties
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Students who apply for and receive a scholarship will get about $10,500 to pay for tuition at an alternative school and students with disabilities will receive up to $30,000.
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Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 4 May 2025
It’s got about half the caffeine of a cup of coffee and a nice coconut flavor thanks to a bit of powdered coconut milk, and, importantly for a mushroom coffee, not too much fungi flavor despite the inclusion of lion’s mane, reishi, and cordyceps.
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Beauvillier and Strome, typically with Ovechkin as their left wing, have been highly effective and highly productive across both games — and that’s after only getting about 24 minutes together in the regular season.
—Arpon Basu, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Currently, 9 of 10 Americans over 65 get Social Security, getting about $2,000 a month, about 50% of retirement income for 44% of all women and 40% of men.
—Stanley S. Litow, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
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Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 4 May 2025
It’s got about half the caffeine of a cup of coffee and a nice coconut flavor thanks to a bit of powdered coconut milk, and, importantly for a mushroom coffee, not too much fungi flavor despite the inclusion of lion’s mane, reishi, and cordyceps.
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Beauvillier and Strome, typically with Ovechkin as their left wing, have been highly effective and highly productive across both games — and that’s after only getting about 24 minutes together in the regular season.
—Arpon Basu, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Currently, 9 of 10 Americans over 65 get Social Security, getting about $2,000 a month, about 50% of retirement income for 44% of all women and 40% of men.
—Stanley S. Litow, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Get about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20about. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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