Find out and Obtain

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Find out verb - To come to an awareness of.

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Obtain and find out are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Obtain" instead a verb "Find out".

Obtain verb - To receive as return for effort.

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Find out and obtain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Find out" instead a verb "Obtain".

Nearby Words: obtained, obtainable, obtaining

Subverted in Battlefield Earth, when Terl decides to find out what humans' favorite food is in order to obtain leverage over them.

Source: Your Favorite
Also, as standard Englishman Arthur Dent will find out, rather difficult to obtain in outer space.Arthur: Is there any tea on this spaceship?

Source: Literature / The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
And to twist the knife further, if you obtain all of the Cosmos and Chaos reports, you find out that Cosmos is more or less Garland/Chaos' adoptive mother. Ew.

Source: God Couple

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