as in to explain
to make plain or understandable
what I'm trying to get across is that there simply is no money for the project
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Recent Examples of get across
State of play: Making Indiana's school board races partisan has been on the agenda for some Statehouse Republicans for several years but has never gotten across the finish line.
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Arika Herron, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
Those looking to get across Manhattan this weekend, can get to some of the same places via the M34 SBS bus or the 42nd St. subway shuttle.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2025
In pulling off the balance between the morbid premise and the humanity of the character afflicted by it, director Rashida Jones relies on Erivo’s ability to get across the panic and dread of the situation with the subtlest of brush strokes.
—Sezin Koehler, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Had those in charge made the decision in the summer, saving them money from Ten Hag and allowing Amorim a pre-season to get across his ideas, maybe United wouldn’t be in this mess.
—Nick Miller, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
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Arika Herron, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
Those looking to get across Manhattan this weekend, can get to some of the same places via the M34 SBS bus or the 42nd St. subway shuttle.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2025
In pulling off the balance between the morbid premise and the humanity of the character afflicted by it, director Rashida Jones relies on Erivo’s ability to get across the panic and dread of the situation with the subtlest of brush strokes.
—Sezin Koehler, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Had those in charge made the decision in the summer, saving them money from Ten Hag and allowing Amorim a pre-season to get across his ideas, maybe United wouldn’t be in this mess.
—Nick Miller, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for get across
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Figure explains that this decision was made to maintain tight control over robot quality, production efficiency, and performance.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Mar. 2025
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All of that helps explain how Gordon got back up in 2011 with 45 doubles, 23 home runs and 87 RBIs to begin a five-year stretch as the best left-fielder in the game — as quantified by FanGraphs’ and Baseball-Reference’s measures of Wins Above Replacement.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
16 Mar. 2025
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This framework is best suited for companies needing to clarify their differentiation in a competitive space.—
Diana Khramina,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney Phil Sorrells in February asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to clarify the law.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Apr. 2025
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Her own work has illustrated how different brain regions activate when processing English or Chinese sentences because of their differing linguistic properties.—
Gayoung Lee,
Scientific American,
14 Apr. 2025
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As the graphic above illustrates, Galatasaray’s Napoli loanee can find space to shoot, even with limited service.—
Ali Rampling,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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The latest developments have once again demonstrated the shifting alliances of Syria's multisided civil war that has been subject to competing geopolitical interests among foreign powers.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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About 3,000 protesters demonstrated Khalil's detention in Lower Manhattan on Monday afternoon, police said.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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Prior advancements all came with some sort of asterisk, though; for example, the derivations involved only worked on short timescales, in a vacuum or under other simplifying conditions.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
14 Apr. 2025
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The federal Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is trying to streamline federal agencies by eliminating redundancies, modernizing technology, and simplifying processes so government better serves taxpayers.—
Adam A. Millsap,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Ethical blind spots Colossal’s website spells out 10 steps for mammoth resurrection.—
Nitin Sekar,
ArsTechnica,
5 Apr. 2025
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Since 2009, federal law requires sellers of new nicotine products to provide regulators with scientific evidence to show that the products would promote public health, but the statute does not spell out specifically what evidence is necessary and sufficient.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2025
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