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Word got around, and after that ailing villagers sometimes showed up at my door.
NEWYORKER: Swimming
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When word got around that Sunita was holding another dinner, people immediately started angling for invitations.
NEWYORKER: Raj, Bohemian
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After word got around of Johnson's stunt he was hired by Powermaster, which put him in charge of its new battery line.
FORBES: Royal Boom
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When one of them was tempted to stray, word got around.
ECONOMIST: Professional services
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Word got around to our manager pretty quickly (who, again, was paying a little more attention than we thought he was), and he never really trusted her after that.
FORBES: Nowhere to Be Found: How I Dealt With an Absentee Manager
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All she knows is that a few years ago word got around that there was money to be made pretending to read books that were in danger of falling off the bestseller lists.
FORBES: Who Reads Stieg Larsson These Days Anyway?
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It was bad enough when, two months ago, word got around that U.S. Central Command's commanding general, David Petraeus, had embraced the meme that Americans were being killed in his theater of operations...
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
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Rep. Michael Grimm of New York said the event had been peppered with occasional lighter moments such as speculation after word got around the room that the new pope was about to be announced.
CNN: SHARE THIS
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Word got around that Rosen was some kind of fashion-biz guru who would freely dispense the lost wisdom of Seventh Avenue and would nudge his design partners back in line only if he felt they had strayed from their own path.
WSJ: A Homegrown Fashion Mogul
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Word has got around that the show is not just for specialists.
ECONOMIST: Pigs and whistles from the Euphrates
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He got word of her death around eight yesterday morning.
NPR: Obama Urges Moving Beyond Bush Era
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After Macaulay got word at a dinner that Dresser-Rand might be turning around, he approached Ingersoll-Rand with a deal to get the unit off its books without taking a writedown.
FORBES: The Connecticut Oil Baron