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Recent Examples of catch on
Even if many retailers are slow to catch on to AI’s benefit at the front end, shoppers are finding workarounds.
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Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The musician’s blend of 1980s pop, rock, and R&B has slowly caught on since then and garnered stamps of approval from artists like Eric Clapton.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2024
His theory will prove mistaken (photons are both created and destroyed), but the term catches on as a way to refer to Einstein’s light quanta.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
Like his emo-country contemporaries, his songs caught on with a young, social-media-savvy demographic.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2024
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Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The musician’s blend of 1980s pop, rock, and R&B has slowly caught on since then and garnered stamps of approval from artists like Eric Clapton.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2024
His theory will prove mistaken (photons are both created and destroyed), but the term catches on as a way to refer to Einstein’s light quanta.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
Like his emo-country contemporaries, his songs caught on with a young, social-media-savvy demographic.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catch on
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Taylor works out of a squat, grayish building on a residential street near the railroad tracks.Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2024
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Disagreements can usually be worked out, and a few words can matter and help with taxes later.Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Over the Rams’ last six games, he’s gone over the century mark four times while demonstrating his versatility.Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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In Eau Claire, a small town in Wisconsin, Trump's visit in 2016 left the city with more than $47,000 in unpaid bills and Clinton's visit the same year with $6,800 in unpaid bills, contributing to the city's operating budget going over by nearly $62,000 that year.Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
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Not just that the House, coming off of its least productive year in modern history, managed to pass a substantive bill.Bridget Grumet, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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This is a reach, because Keith doesn’t come off as insecure, merely as a normal person who wants to avoid messiness and was never that into Danni.Emma Soren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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The passing of the baton is official: British maestro Alexander Shelley will succeed Carl St.Clair as artistic and musical director of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra.Samantha Dunn, Orange County Register, 13 Nov. 2024
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Israel might succeed at temporarily fragmenting the group, but Hezbollah will likely reconsolidate.Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2024
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Williams joined the Jets this offseason on a one-year, $10 million deal, but didn't exactly pan out.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Not all of these ideas will pan out, but if any do, the next few years could bring an inflection point in treating some of the most frustrating and intractable diseases of our modern era.Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
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As in Lightroom, clicking Denoise opens a window that shows an area of your photo in close detail with the correction active.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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Testers who clicked into the Arcade 88 agreed that this versatile frontside ski will speak to a wide range of skiers.Outside Editors, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
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“Catch on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catch%20on. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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