Earn
Earn verb - To receive as return for effort.
Usage example: during my teen years I earned pocket money by mowing lawns
Garner
Garner verb - To receive as return for effort.
Usage example: a novelist that has garnered praise for his literate police procedurals
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However, for particularly bad movies, single complaints can earn multiple sins, and in the most extreme cases a single gripe can garner hundreds or thousands of sins.
Source: Web Video / CinemaSins - While simply attempting to earn more money to make oneself better off is no big deal, greed applies when one attempts to garner ever greater amounts of possessions and money simply for the sake of having more than everyone else.
Source: Greed
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