got about

verb

past tense of get about
as in spread
to become known it got about that the company was having financial difficulties

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Recent Examples of got about Flight tracking data show the helicopter left Catalina’s Pebbly Beach heliport and got about 175 feet above sea level about eight seconds into its flight before rapidly descending. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Schlossberg, who got about 10 percent of the vote, fled to his mother Caroline Kennedy’s house on Martha’s Vineyard for the summer to heal his wounds. — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026 Cherry-Prime got about 46% of the vote, while Mack got about 40%. — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026 Fujimori garnered just over 17% of the votes while Sánchez got about 12% in a crowded field of candidates in the first round of voting in April. — ABC News, 1 June 2026 Cavanagh got about $20 million worth of company stock in March, as per usual. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2026 Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of DHS, got about $86 billion. — Anne Toomey McKenna, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026 The Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn home was first put on the market in October 2025 for $7,995,000, and was later reduced to $7,300,000 in January 2026, meaning the buyers got about $1 million off the original asking price. — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026 Bloomington got about a half-inch less. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for got about
  1. spread
  2. circulated
  3. got out
  4. came out
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  • Swells from Isaias are affecting the western and northern portions of the Yucatan Peninsula and will spread northward toward the Gulf Coast on Friday.
    — MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Food and drink With half a dozen restaurants spread around the complex, there’s no need to eat the same dish twice.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of spread
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  • Murmurs have circulated among California state workers about bedbugs returning to the Department of Education’s headquarters, where an infestation this summer resulted in employees temporarily working from home.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • April Leonard, a former social media manager for the city, had her name and picture circulated online after the city’s official X account posted a controversial joke about Butker.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of circulated
Verb
  • When the Nissan's occupants stopped to check on him, Tanaka allegedly got out of his vehicle with a handgun and fired at least one round into the car's windshield.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Renee stopped their red SUV in the street and honked her horn to warn people about the operation while Becca got out and started recording video with her cellphone.
    — Tim Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of got out
Verb
  • That came out of, in part, speaking to so many people in our field and just in the city in general about what needs there are in the ecosystem, one of which is that space is a scarcity.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Whatever electronic gremlins the first models came out with have long been sorted.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of came out

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