GOT ROUND Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

got round

verb

past tense of get round

as in spread

to become known word got round that a movie star was spending the night at a local motel

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Recent Examples of got round Technically, this is because my 18-year-old son hasn’t got round to updating his MacBook. — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026 At the end of last month, Trump finally got round to including Seth Meyers in his social media barrages against the comedians that regularly mock him. — Peter White, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025

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Thatâ€™s $280 billion from firms like Singaporeâ€™s Bitdeer, Australiaâ€™s Graphinex, Belgiumâ€™s UCB, South Koreaâ€™s Korea Zinc, and Japanâ€™s Isuzu Motors, spread across more than 345 projects.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The company’s new Aura software measures hive health, pollen counts, and pesticide prevalence across its 2,200 hives spread around more than 70 cities.

— Drew Robb, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of spread

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From here, heated water is circulated to fan coil units (FCUs) to circulate warm air throughout the poultry house.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
But some immigration advocates feel the reforms did not go far enough and have not been circulated widely.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of circulated

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Motorists, fed up with the second malfunction of the week, got out of their cars and lifted the arms so others could drive under, either venturing into or out of the Folsom Boulevard commuter traffic.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of got out

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Introduced in 2001, the shoe came out of Harajuku’s creative movement and quickly became a cultural touchstone.

— Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
Ever since his days as an architect of the southern-soul sound that came out of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the 1960s, the songwriter and legendary session musician has built his career on innately understanding what a song needs.

— Chris Stanton, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of came out

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When word got around, more famous people started popping in, Delany says.

— Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair, 12 Oct. 2026
Although the city, bound by a freakishly heavy snowfall and bitter cold, was hard to traverse, Dylan, now with plenty of time on his hands, got around.

— Sean Wilentz, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026

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