GETTING AROUND Synonyms: 182 Similar and Opposite Words

getting around

verb

present participle of get around

as in overcoming

to achieve a victory over somehow, an inexperienced lawyer managed to get around the media giant's stable of high-priced legal eagles

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as in circumventing

to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness somehow she managed to get around the rules for paying the sales tax on a car bought out of state

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as in spreading

to become known word of the discovery of gold quickly got around

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as in avoiding

to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery their lawyer has spent months trying to get around certain restrictions in the contract

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Recent Examples of getting around There’s no getting around those physics. —

New Atlas, 19 Apr. 2026 Choosing two different areas, for example, a hotel near downtown’s museums and sports venues, and then a beach hotel near the coast, will make getting around more convenient. —

Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2026 Jessica Mathews here, filling in for Allie to give you a quick update on some recent reporting that looks at the pushback that Elon Musk’s companies are getting around the country. —

Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026 Scorpio Rising Work has its hands on you this month, and there's no getting around it. —

Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2026 Now, the conference is getting around $3 million per school. —

Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026 There’s no getting around paying taxes, but there’s something galling about paying for the privilege. —

Brian Sloan,dan Avery, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026 With the hundreds of thousands of people expected to be in town for the event, road closures and getting around will be a challenge. —

Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026 They were modified, reproduced, and outfitted in showy décor, becoming a key way of getting around for working-class Filipinos. —

ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026

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Finally, in overcoming this vexing moment, the two would establish a painterly repartee that altered the trajectory of their own work and, by extension, modern art.

— Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
But overcoming perceptions that lithium-ion battery technology is inherently dangerous has proven challenging, and developers sometimes fuel mistrust by dismissing residents’ concerns about fire, toxic threats and the industrialization of natural landscapes.

— Bloomberg, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026