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Recent Examples of get on The sophomore got on base twice more via hit by pitch. Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025 My God, Jennifer has been getting on my nerves lately. James Factora, Them., 28 Apr. 2025 Trump believed that if ABC would cave, so too would other companies worried about getting on his bad side, according to three sources familiar with his thinking. Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Apr. 2025 Imagine being able to transfer from the subway to Metro-North’s urban stops on a single fare or get on a train in Newark and get off at JFK. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for get on
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  • Chana Joffe-Walt’s series of episodes provides a unique perspective on the war, emphasizing the humanity and agency of those living through it – from families navigating relocation to children coping with trauma, ultimately illustrating the resilience of life amid despair.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
  • The lawsuits seek money to help communities cope with the risks and damages from global warming, including more extreme storms, floods and heat waves.
    Michael Copley , Russell Newlove, NPR, 30 Apr. 2025
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  • Svalbard is governed by a 1920 treaty that gives over 40 countries, including Russia, China and the U.S., equal rights to live and do business there.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Other retailers, particularly sites like Temu, AliExpress, and Shein, have all taken their own steps, either adding labels to listings when import taxes have already been included in the price, or adding import taxes as a separate line item in users' carts at checkout as Amazon had discussed doing.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
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  • Why Reinforcement Learning is a Game-Changer Reinforcement Learning edge lies in its efficiency and ingenuity: Lean and Mean: Unlike computationally intensive supervised learning that are trained on sprawling high-power data centers reinforcement learning can get by with less.
    Paul X. McCarthy, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • In response to the foundation’s findings, Supervisor Pat Hume said in many cases, there are households who struggle to survive financially and do whatever to get by.
    Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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  • The 36-year-old, 14-year veteran — in the fifth year of his six-season, $90 million contract — had been on a rehab assignment since last week and was progressing in impressive fashion, stroking six hits including a home run in 10 at-bats.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
  • After progressing into the Champions League semi-finals, Arsenal have already banked around £100m.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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  • But for a general-purpose Mac antivirus that will get along with your other devices, Bitdefender Antivirus remains an Editors' Choice winner.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The stuffy central banker and the down-to-earth businessmen got along well, and have formed a good-cop-bad-cop team trying to manage the never-ending threats from south of the border.
    Stephen Maher, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
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  • Another legal challenge to Trump's order brought by 19 Democratic state attorneys general in federal court in Massachusetts is proceeding separately, though the government has asked for that case to be moved to Washington, D.C., to be consolidated with the one before Kollar-Kotelly.
    Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 24 Apr. 2025
  • That said, proceed with a little common sense here.
    Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2025
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  • The songs intricately narrate the struggles of overcoming adversity, seeking hope in uncertainty, and marching collectively toward the future.
    Billboard China, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2025
  • San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie becomes his hometown’s hype man The TK: The Harem of Elon Musk The L.A. Times Special: More immigrants opt to self-deport rather than risk being marched out like criminals Until next week, George Skelton — Was this newsletter forwarded to you?
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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  • Louisiana Louisiana’s law went into effect Jan. 1 requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, but the state hasn't issued guidance on what documentation residents need.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • And then, all of the sudden, the girlfriend’s gone.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Get on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/get%20on. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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