Timeline for How does 'to obtain' develop to mean 'to prevail'?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Oct 25, 2014 at 7:42 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 29, 2014 at 19:50 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | (ODO sense 2) 'obtain' has been bleached (for part of its range of application) so thoroughly as to be replaceable by 'subsist' or even 'be'. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 19:43 | history | edited | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Souce of quotes MUST be cited in plain text. A link is good but optional.
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| Aug 29, 2014 at 17:23 | answer | added | WS2 | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Aug 29, 2014 at 16:24 | history | suggested | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2014 at 16:24 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | It's not that much of a stretch to consider something that's prevalent, customary, and established to have taken a hold and be now holding fast (to its position, or just in general). The two meanings don't seem that far apart or incompatible to me. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 15:59 | comment | added | Tim | It just has 2, separate meanings... | |
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| Aug 29, 2014 at 15:50 | history | edited | user50720 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2014 at 15:44 | history | asked | user50720 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |