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- adjective Alternative spelling of
gogetting .
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Examples
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He may be a fervent monarchist, a Tory voter with views, as one player unoriginally puts it, "to the right of Genghis Khan" and, in his single-minded go-getting, an emblematic figure of the Thatcherite high noon.
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"I have the hard, go-getting, organised confidence from my mum but under it a real softness."
Hayley Atwell: 'The real me is a loner, a nerd and a bit overweight' Kate Kellaway 2010
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Teen tunes seem to have become terribly introspective, terribly go-getting, terribly … dull.
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The Curse of Zohreh particularly focusses on the different and inventive ways in which Jinn have adapted to the go-getting modern glitz of contemporary Arabia.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » From the Mailbox: Fairytale as a basis for fantasy 2009
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At the box office The Big Lebowski was more of a slothful couch potato than a go-getting Gordon Gekko, but its legacy has been just as influential as the "greed is good" ethos of Wall Street, only with less shouting and more milk-based cocktails.
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She's in a "situation" that many hard-working, go-getting, ambitious professionals are experiencing.
Toan Lam: How Much Could Your Boss Pay You to Be Unhappy? 2010
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And unfortunately there is also no shortage of naïve, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, go-getting, soon-to-be first-year law students who buy into all of that crap.
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Behind was Han China, the materialistic, modernizing, go-getting world of Wang.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Surely they should have the self-confidence to be The Villagers, the only residents of a small settlement that we need to be concerning ourselves with, or The Editors, go-getting decision makers who say, "HOLD THE FRONT PAGE OF ROCK'N'ROLL!"
Klaxons, Liars, Editors, where's the the? Johnny Sharp 2010
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She's in a "situation" that many hard-working, go-getting, ambitious professionals are experiencing.
Toan Lam: How Much Could Your Boss Pay You to Be Unhappy? 2010
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