catch on (to)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catch on (to)
Verb
  • After more than a decade cycling through juvenile detention, foster care placements, and state prisons, Valdez realizes now that treatment for his mental health conditions would have made life on his own much easier.
    Renuka Rayasam, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
  • As average citizens realize that wars and arms races are a con and nothing good will come of them, but environmental cooperation is very much in everyone’s mutual interest, the paradigm will begin to change.
    Winslow Myers, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • When policies improve learning, the researchers say, schools need to know that — and to understand why.
    Cory Turner, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Apparently, the older man does have the security clearance to know what happened, because his hand — which Cal presses to the device — unlocks the files.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • French police are investigating the death of a British couple who were discovered dead in their home in France.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
  • According to a press conference Friday morning and a news release, detectives discovered that one of Manzano's credit cards was missing from his wallet, and found that Colbert used the card at several stores around the New Orleans area.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • When policies improve learning, the researchers say, schools need to know that — and to understand why.
    Cory Turner, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
  • However, understanding these potential impacts could help prepare humanity for this possible future.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Morgan Stanley upgrades Upstart to equal weight from underweight The firm sees an improving environment for the artificial intelligence lending company.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The final three decades of the 20th century saw a fascinating transformation of the Ferrari grand tourer (GT) that, in many ways, came full circle by the time the clock ticked 2000.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Once upon a planet Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Furthermore, the pole-to-pole probe will collect measurements at multiple times of day over sunlit regions, helping researchers decipher whether water signatures on the illuminated surface change as the lunar surface temperature changes by hundreds of degrees over the course of a lunar day.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Williams has been recognized with 13 Grammys on 39 nominations, for work on his own and in collaboration with artists such as Nile Rodgers, Daft Punk, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and Janet Jackson.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Honored for his performance as legendary musician Pete Seeger in A Complete Unknown, Norton, 55, was previously recognized by the Critics Choice Awards as an individual nominee for 2014’s Birdman and as an ensemble winner for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and Birdman.
    Jack Smart, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • After hearing the original title theme produced by the writing team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, the actor rejected it.
    Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The owner can be heard in the video praising the pup for being gentle with the kitten.
    Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
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