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garner
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  • He'd been lucky, she decided, very lucky that the incident had occurred on such an obscure sector, in a hellhole that didn't garner much attention.  (source)
  • Angel slipped through the front door, and holding the baseball behind his back, he tried not to garner his father's attention.  (source)
  • They do not garner the respect that the Athenaeum Club does.  (source)
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  • Before this, no radio signal received by the listening post had ever garnered a recognizability rating above a Blue 2.†  (source)
  • They were mansions, as large as the Garners' house and barn put together.†  (source)
  • I longed to get away from the theater altogether and stood listlessly, garnering information at last that was useless and infinitely dull.†  (source)
  • The prosecution gave a recap of evidence presented during the criminal trial; and then the defense got a chance to garner sympathy for a murderer.  (source)
    garner = gain
  • To-Day and Thee The appointed winners in a long-stretch'd game; The course of Time and nations—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome; The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments, Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books, Garner'd for now and thee—To think of it!†  (source)
  • Inside tensions built up like fever as we crammed around the TV set or kitchen table, the crowding made more intolerable because of heaps of paper, opened file drawers and shelves packed with books that garnered every section of empty space (a sort of writer's torture chamber).†  (source)
  • The Garners, it seemed to her, ran a special kind of slavery, treating them like paid labor, listening to what they said, teaching what they wanted known.†  (source)
  • He won the popular vote over Richard Nixon by a razor-thin margin, garnering just 49 percent of the tally.†  (source)
  • However, there are many who stand between me and the crown; it will not be easy to garner enough votes to become king.  (source)
    garner = get or acquire
  • —Yet could I bear that too; well, very well: But there, where I have garner'd up my heart; Where either I must live or bear no life,—The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up; to be discarded thence!†  (source)
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