Catch on
Catch on verb - Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.
Release
Release verb - To set free (from a state of being held in check).
Both terms in one sentence
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It's even more annoying as anime companies used to release the box sets WITH the extras, until thinpaks started to catch on.
Source: Vanilla Edition - Coincidentally the console took the video game industry by storm despite people within Sony, video game journalists and consumers claiming that It Will Never Catch On before release.
- His human companions take a while to catch on that this isn't just an affectation: he does this to vent excess steam from his boiler without betraying his position to enemies or rainforest predators, the way a normal steamman's pressure-release whistle would.
Source: Voice Changeling
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Release and Catch on. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/catch_on/release
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