as in to spread
to become known
it got about that the company was having financial difficulties
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Add half of them to a cup of yogurt to get about 29 grams of protein.2324
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Merve Ceylan, Health, 7 Oct. 2024
The effect is thought to occur when storms get about 900 miles apart.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
In total, this year, the state housing authority got about $250 million from the federal government.
—Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
Sotheby’s shareholders got about $57 per share, a 61 percent bump in the stock price.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2024
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Merve Ceylan, Health, 7 Oct. 2024
The effect is thought to occur when storms get about 900 miles apart.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
In total, this year, the state housing authority got about $250 million from the federal government.
—Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
Sotheby’s shareholders got about $57 per share, a 61 percent bump in the stock price.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2024
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Fix the Hide Before Tweaking the Spread If things aren’t going as planned and ducks aren’t finishing, duck hunters tend to want to mess with the decoy spread.Joe Arterburn, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
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Dozens of firefighters were battling the brush fire just days after fires in wooded areas of Brooklyn, the Bronx and New Jersey spread smoke across New York City.Evan Bush, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Screenshots have also circulated on social media that appear to show that Scherzinger liked an Instagram post by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that expressed support for a Trump presidency in the caption.Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024
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Inflammation: Chronic inflammatory conditions can affect how your body uses or stores iron, leading to low circulating ferritin levels.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
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The night is young, and Steve hasn’t even gotten out his calculator.Jen Chaney, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Char Goolsby sat on a brown leather sofa at Carey House in Detroit's storied Boston Edison District, the home she's turned into both an operational hub to get out the vote this election season and a neighborhood campaign center for Vice President Kamala Harris.Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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Jordan — who required a walker to get around — stayed on the pavement while Evans allegedly walked up and fired at her from a short distance.Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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State significance Wyoming has voted overwhelmingly for the Republican presidential candidate for decades, with Donald Trump getting around 70% of the vote in 2020.ABC NEWS, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Get about.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/get%20about. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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