Synonyms
Examples for "get"
Examples for "get"
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Renzi says the main task is to get Europe out of crisis.
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However, she has so far said the government will not get involved.
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A law change is coming and schools will get new guidelines today.
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The migrants hope to get to wealthy western Europe and find work.
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However, they said they did get good striations for a future match.
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He choked; the blood beat in his head; he was at bursting-point.
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Twice the English beat the enemy in the triangle between the rivers.
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Mr Trump beat Ms Clinton by 5 per cent four years ago.
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The rain beat upon them and the wind soughed in the trees.
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We could hear the immense heart-beat of the world in the stillness.
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Jebb says she uses a carrot-and-stick approach with companies to encourage change.
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At that point you get the stick out and say: 'I'm sorry.
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But the government has said it will stick to its original order.
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The governor was obdurate in his decision to stick in the race.
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Social distancing measures might stick around for a year, according to scientists.
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Vector-borne diseases, including arboviruses, pose a serious threat to public health worldwide.
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Yet such detentions pose a public image problem for the security forces.
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I pose this simple question: is our destiny with Europe or not?
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However, overtreatment should be avoided and life-threatening infections pose a particular problem.
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Immigrants do pose a severe burden on particular communities at particular times.
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The voids in the sand grit and gravel were 27 per cent.
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I followed a gravel driveway along the left side of the building.
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There; you can hear the wheels of his gig on the gravel.
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Oh, and the gravel strip under the windows is a good idea.
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I can feel it, Alick had said, his voice gravel-donot appear.
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Years later it is not possible to assemble the accountability puzzle fully.
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Every book becomes a new kind of puzzle the second time around.
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OmniMotion Technology this week released Sumo, a physics-based combat and puzzle game.
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Instinctively, Faith knew she was missing a great deal of the puzzle.
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The puzzle apparently no longer needed any human agency in its solving.
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The stranger stood in amaze and gazed on the scene before him.
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The face she saw in the mirror excited her amaze and pity.
3
The English in their towers gazed in amaze, but fired no shot.
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They turned in sudden amaze to the spot whence the sounds issued.
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The sight of the paper which it contained seemed to amaze him.
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Barbara did not sulk; when one tried to baffle her she fought.
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The appearance of Marouane Fellaini in a United shirt continues to baffle.
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And so two people will maneuver and wander and baffle each other.
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It was dug out merely to baffle robbers, and it concealed nothing.
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The motivations and instincts of our continental partners sometimes baffle us Brits.
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Asking him to consider the consequences beyond that appeared to perplex him.
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These issues perplex so many families, and the Andrews were no different.
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How Junkie got to the Baviaans River may perhaps perplex the reader.
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It was a perfectly commonplace remark-andyet, it seemed to perplex him.
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He will puzzle us and perplex us as well as exasperate us.
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I believe this report will weary and bewilder people more than others.
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Later, the lights in the busy streets will bewilder and entice him.
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Thus did Hepzibah bewilder herself with these fantasies of the old time.
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Reine went in and out of the room in a bewildered fashion.
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Darrell did not reply at once; he felt in some way bewildered.
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The Emperor's invariable method in dealing with men was to mystify them.
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I always was under the impression that no illusion could mystify me.
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Her very confession, so simply spoken, tended to confuse, to mystify him.
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That was better than frankincense and myrrh, to mystify a genuine commissioner!
5
Mr Kent gashes body, to mystify discoverers, and disposes of same.'
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You stupefy and bewilder her with your eternal tattling and roundabout harangues.
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Religion seems to have no other object, than to stupefy the mind.
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Somebody might have thought to stupefy Mr. Langmore and then rob him.
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All these things seemed to dull and stupefy me rather than excite.
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He is usually satisfied to stupefy, rob, and then leave his victim.
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Phonny was put quite to a nonplus by this unexpected answer.
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He wanted to nonplus and disconcert her, if such a thing were possible.
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This reply seemed to nonplus us all with the exception of Maitland and Godin.
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And down he sat at a nonplus, and very unhappy.
5
The adjurer appeared, for one moment, fairly at a nonplus.
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Silus took the bottle of flummox and necked half the contents.
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Li used her searing backhands to flummox Swiss tactician Hingis during the early stages.
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How eukaryotes first evolved is a puzzle that continues to flummox scientists the world over.
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To Edinburgh, which would daringly flummox the Scottish nationalists?
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Football has found a way to flummox the most storied, most successful World Cup nation of all.
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You dumbfound me, my friend; I can find no expression for my gratitude.
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That, he assured his imperial brother, would amaze and dumbfound the entire universe more than anything else that could possibly be conceived.
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Shock value counts for everything: You have to dumbfound your victims, traumatize them, make them too senseless to react, too passive to resist.
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And what do you drink yourself then, to be able all alone by yourself to dumbfound and stupefy the city so with your clamour?
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Each year it produces surprising and exceptional projects that are complex enough to dumbfound even the most experienced academics who contribute their time as judges.
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Just to vex him, I had made a list of essential characteristics.
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I have no doubt he is deliberately setting out to vex us.
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They vex the ear a little, but they never reach the mind.
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It seemed this body was determined to vex ID at every turn.
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And now let us not vex ourselves any further with these conundrums.
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It would never do to vex the minister with fears for her.
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The Duke thinks he does this to try and vex Lady Conyngham.
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Sir Charles said eagerly he would not vex her for the world.
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But before punishing Prometheus he decided to vex the children of men.
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And I think removing one of Adelbern's prizes will vex him greatly.
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To him, the gloating of a rival cannot be allowed to vex.
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I cannot see what I have done of late to vex her.
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But it was not worth while to vex himself about a trifle.
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The man they were tormenting must have done something to vex them.
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He laughed when I asked if anything had happened to vex him.
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Yes, and therefore I will not be there to vex his sight.
