Try to get
Want and try to get are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Want" instead a verb phrase "Try to get".
Want
Want verb - To have an earnest wish to own or enjoy.
Try to get and want are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Try to get" instead a verb "Want".
Both terms in one sentence
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Miss Price doesn't want the kids and the kids don't want Miss Price, so they try to get rid of each other as quickly as possible.
Source: Film / Bedknobs and Broomsticks -
They don't want him in Heaven and Hell, so they each try to get him to go to the opposite side.
- Gondor Calls for Aid: The Norwegians try to get NATO onboard, but NATO as a whole doesn't want to have anything to do with this dustup; the US has relocated its carriers to watch the Chinese, and the French and Germans want to sit this out.
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