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get to

phrasal verb with get
 
 
/ɡet/ verb (present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US gotten)

Definition

B2 You ask where people or things have got to when they do not arrive or are not where you expect them to be and you want to know where they are: I wonder where my glasses have got to. Where's Annabel got to? She should be here by now.Losing and lossWinning and losing
(Definition of get to from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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