Words similar to getting

Example sentences for: getting

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"We're getting the speed of light so low we can almost send a beam into the system, go for a cup of coffee and return in time to see the light come out.
But Hillary has always seemed to chide us, as if we were all mossback fat cats of the '30s who were getting ready to go down to the Trans-Lux and boo Roosevelt (isn't that how that other great cartoon of the times went?)
The paper doesn't point out that this is getting towards the flight profile involved in that Marine flight that hit the ski lift, suggesting that such low flying is not without its applications in this theater of operations and not necessarily a sign of joyriding.
The new transplant rules, explains the USAT lead (and front-page pieces in the WP , and the NYT ), aim at providing organs to the sickest candidates first regardless of where they live, as opposed to the current ones, which were conceived when organs couldn't be maintained outside the body for nearly as long as they can now, and hence emphasize getting them to the closest candidates.
The makers of the piece went to the trouble of getting the developmental biologist Eddie de Robertis to reconstruct the classic experiment of Mangold and Spemann that revealed the underlying basis of some of these defects.