to garner
- verb
- /ˈɡɑrnər/
- Formal
- The bill supporters will try to garner support for an override in the interim.
- garner support
- garner attention
- garner votes
Men will do more extreme things to garner the attention of a woman.
- Men will do more extreme things to garner the attention of a woman.
- Hillary Johnson is garnering more millennial support than you are.
- Can he could be garnering headlines, eating up airtime.
- There's a humility to you that garners trust.
- And, and it's garnering information from that.
- It garners the approval of people around them.
- And that's that's a form of richness that no mere material gifts can garner or replace.
- And there are, you know, there are any number of people who are doing that and they garner huge audiences.
- He, you know, garnered a massive youth fan base through through that.
- Like what is it about hormone health that perhaps sets it a little bit apart and has sort of garnered your intrigue?
- The other respect is usually if you do something that in the workplace that garners approval, you've completed a goal.
- They're good at being strategic with their empathy and wielding it when it will forward their cause and garner them even more validation.
Examples
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Above all, public education is essential to minimizing harmful behavior and garnering strong community support for management decisions.
Academic text (2011) -
Hillary Johnson is garnering more millennial support than you are.
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Men will do more extreme things to garner the attention of a woman.
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But, over time, I have garnered their trust.
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Would you share whatever information you garner with me and Sonny?
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So we've been going door-to-door, sort of garner support for our team.
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Secretary of State Charlotte Field continues on her impressive 20-country world tour to garner more support for her ambitious environmental initiative.
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Following a strategic model for planning builds is a means for garnering long-term community support.
Academic text (2013) -
Air pollution is officially the city's number one problem, garnering the lion's share of government attention.
Academic text (1991) -
She worked hard to garner support for her community project.
Synonyms
To earn someone's trust or respect by being kind and reliable
Bring people, things, or information together in one place
To get something useful, often by effort, like money or skills
To get respect from others because you behave well
To get something by asking or working for it
To bring things or people together in one place
Gather people or things and organize them to reach a goal
To get something you need, often by trying hard or getting special help
To gather information or things from different places
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Etymology
The verb garner grew from the idea of bringing grain into a storehouse, so it now means 'to gather' or 'to collect' something, often after effort.