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Sep 2024
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748 - 11 Uses & Meanings Of Get

Michael DiGiacomo Happy English
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In the last podcast episode, I showed you some idioms using the verb get. Well after that I was thinking and just the word get, all by itself has more that 10 different meanings and uses. Let's check it out!

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