as in won
to receive as return for effort
she's bringing in good money selling houses
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Recent Examples of brought in
And that mountain looms far larger than the piles of cash that CoreWeave has brought in the door so far.
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Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2025
Also in the Rams’ spotlight is Mevis, who was brought in to supplant Joshua Karty after the Stanford product’s missed 5-of-15 field-goal attempts and three point-after kicks this season.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
There’s big studio stuff coming from Pixar or DreamWorks and nothing else except foreign films that get brought in.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
Lucas was a highly respected recruiter as an assistant with Texas, Kentucky and Duke, and brought in a Top 20 recruiting class, led by 6-6 and 240-pound forward Shelton Henderson, who originally committed to Duke, and 6-4 guard Dante Allen, son of Miami Heat assistant Malik Allen.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2025
The enforcer was brought in to help with the Senators’ toughness after they were walloped, physically and figuratively, by the Canadiens in the preseason.
—Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Peacock previously told The Charlotte Observer his fundraising efforts during the 2025 campaign brought in more money in a shorter period of time than any of his previous campaigns.
—Charlotte Observer, 2 Nov. 2025
The Machine’s sixth full-length studio album brought in 53% of the vote.
—Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2025
For the second iteration of the oven, the brand brought in the Internet’s favorite food nerd, chef and writer Kenji López Alt.
—Emily Farris, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brought in
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The Bruins won for the fifth time in six games despite going 0 for 6 on the power play a day after beating the Rangers 10-2.—
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One Battle After Another led the show's nominations with nine in total, including Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and nods for his costars Chase Infiniti, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Teyana Taylor, who won Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture.—
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Snow is also coming off of a performance in Netflix's The Beast in Me, which earned a Golden Globes nod in the Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television category, as well as two other nominations for performances by leads Matthew Rhys and Claire Danes.—
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On the television side, popular shows like The Pitt, and The Studio won big at the Golden Globes, with Noah Wyle winning for his dramatic performance in the medical series, while Seth Rogen earned a Globe for his work in the streaming comedy.—
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The Hurricanes are a plus-3 in the playoffs (five gained, two lost) and plus-12 on the season (25 gained, 13 lost), while Ole Miss is plus-2 in playoffs (four gained, two lost) and even on the season (14 gained, 14 lost).—
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Thus, over time, Williams gained appreciation for Johnson’s motives, for his communication style, most of all for his consistency.—
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The lone exceptions have been health care – an industry growing as a result of an aging population – and leisure and hospitality, which has reaped some of the spoils from an increasingly bifurcated economy.—
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Schools reaped more than half the total collections in recent years.—
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The anthology series, which has garnered accolades at the New York Festivals Radio Awards and the Irish Podcast Awards, was brought to the stage with a live show at the London Podcast Festival in 2022 and a second live show in Dublin in 2023.—
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That clip, which garnered more than a million views in 24 hours and has 9 million-plus views in total, turned my 82-year-old mother into a viral sensation.—
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Recently, researchers have made a major leap forward by engineering a novel cathode material that dramatically elevates performance, bringing us closer to practical, high-efficiency thermal energy systems.—
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Joonas Korpisalo made 27 saves for his first shutout of the season and the eighth of his career, Viktor Arvidsson scored and the Boston Bruins beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 1-0 on Sunday.—
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The findings suggest that the ice is 20 and 23 km deep at the north-pole with an average of 25 to 28 km globally – slightly deeper than previous estimates obtained using other remote sensing and modeling techniques, as per the release.—
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Images obtained by local media show firefighters extinguishing massive flames, and photos of the aftermath show the factory's siding completely burned, leaving the interior of the building exposed.—
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By 1996, Joe broke through in commercial work and got into television.—
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Multiple King of Fire, which got its start as a food truck and expanded to a permanent space in uptown Charlotte, plans to open a 3,484-square-foot space at CrossRidge Center across the border in Indian Land, South Carolina.—
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“Brought in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brought%20in. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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