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Example sentences for: gotten

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USA TODAY's front section main story makes the point that although the conventional wisdom is that Bill Clinton's health care proposal was a colossal failure, he has actually in the past two years gotten Congress to pass many provisions congenial to its concepts, one bill at a time.
He writes: "But at the same time he has gotten more than he wanted only to discover that a dream fulfilled is no longer a dream; it is a new and heavier weight."
In The American Language , Mencken has seven references to gotten , which he says is now (1945) almost absolete in England.
[ Update, 8/4/99 : After much pestering online and by phone, Chatterbox has finally gotten The Atlantic to post on its Web site Jim Mann's watershed Deep Throat piece.
Therefore, it's a good start that USAT reports that most of the defendants in this case have preemptively gotten rid of their assets and hence that the plaintiffs will probably never collect a cent of the millions mentioned in the headlines.