Word: garnering
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Following his summa cum laude graduation from Yale in 1942, Stewart’s decades in academia saw him garner a litany of accomplishments. The achievements ranged from his published work on ancient religion, literature, and philosophy to his review and revival of Harvard University Press’s Loeb Classical Library, which publishes English translations of Greek and Latin texts...
This semester, the EAC has actively worked to garner student support for the plan’s implementation, according to Hunter...
Troubled individuals may also have watched the mounting catastrophes garner attention and taken a cue. Like a sore throat, suicide can be contagious. "One suicide in a community can become a trigger for other people who are at risk," Waterson explains. Suicide clusters generally occur among teenagers and young adults, though patterns have been reported in groups of marine troops, religious sects and psychiatric inpatients. But the cases in Gnosall cover a broad age spectrum, and the deceased, by all accounts, were not close to one another. Khan points out that the suicide rate has fallen there in the past...
...course candidates should seek to garner as many first-choice votes as possible, but they should also not ignore voters who are clearly supporting other tickets. Instead, campaigns should try to grab students’ second-place votes, which can be influential if the election requires a runoff...
...Dark-horse tickets should also emphasize to voters that first-place votes for them will not be wasted. These campaigns can then hope to garner enough first-place votes to stave off elimination, while relying on second-place votes to propel them to victory...