as in to arrive
to get to a destination
we had trouble getting through because of the heavy snowfall
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Recent Examples of get through
However, in the end the pups do manage to get through.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Both of those setbacks arrive at a time when the Padres had been considering a six-man rotation to get through a series of long stretches of games.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
And people who need benefits to get through a week of being able to feed their children and put a roof over their heads are further injured when those funds are snatched by scammers.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 May 2025
Her boyfriend first called the driver’s number through the Uber app, but couldn’t get through.
—David Chiu, People.com, 21 May 2025
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Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Both of those setbacks arrive at a time when the Padres had been considering a six-man rotation to get through a series of long stretches of games.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
And people who need benefits to get through a week of being able to feed their children and put a roof over their heads are further injured when those funds are snatched by scammers.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 May 2025
Her boyfriend first called the driver’s number through the Uber app, but couldn’t get through.
—David Chiu, People.com, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for get through
Verb
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The pair arrived a day after getting off the ground on a spacecraft.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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All three arrived at the Tree Top from another Waterbury bar.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2025
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There often comes a point as a parent, mentor, coach, advisor where the lectures clearly aren’t working because the troublemaker continues to get in trouble.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2025
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Such a rigorous approach aims to try and prevent confounding factors from getting in the way of making suitable claims regarding what the research identified and stipulates as strident outcomes.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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The sculpture appears in the form of a glass cube, which glows with light that changes color based on live temperature data taken from the Hoh Rain Forest in near Seattle, Washington State.—
Lucy Handley,
CNBC,
1 June 2025
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In these updates, the C.D.C. appeared at pains to neither undermine its support for the vaccines nor directly contradict its boss’s boss.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
31 May 2025
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“Get through.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/get%20through. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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