Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since then, I haven't really had any life-changing realizations that I should be more careful. I still have never got a ticket or gotten in a serious accident. So why have I changed...
Charlie stared at me for a long time. Finally, he said, "Right. And that's Hindi for, 'I knew I should have gotten these shorts in an extra large.'" Then he started to cackle. After that conversation, his standard greeting to me became, "Kabaddikabaddikabaddi, and a very Happy New Year...
...yanked that thing he could have gotten electrocuted on that machine," said Cuggino, gesturing towards a construction worker and his backhoe. "That's why we think it was already broken, from age maybe, and he just knocked it a little and the wire hit the pipe...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A string of poor crops caused by below average rainfall in the midwest are finally catching up with consumers at the supermarket. With food prices in June reaching their highest levels in six years, everything from Wonder bread to Ben & Jerry's has gotten more expensive. Some economists predict that food price inflation, which has averaged a moderate 2.4 percent increase for the last few years, will surge as high as 7 percent by the end of the year. TIME's business editor Bill Saporito reports that while food prices are going up, their overall effect on inflation...
...summer I knew that I could never work in a lab--although I did not officially stop being a science person until Chem 10 robbed me of any inspiration I had ever gotten from studying the periodic table. By last summer, I figured it was time to try something entirely different, so I interned at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the Education Department...