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# How to pronounce "gets at" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/dʒɛtsæt/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **get·sat**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "gets at" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "just, it's so resonant. It calls up so many different ideas, but then you think, "Well, what does it mean? What does it come from? Where did he get this idea?" But it really gets at that sort of dream versus nightmare idea -- the kind of myth of Hollywood. Hollywood is a Verb, another one of my favorites. Doesn't really make sense at all, but you sort of understand what he's saying. He has a quotation that I really like where he talks"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 31:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC_FGu_jJdE&t=1898s)

### Example 2
> "number two um at the justice department if Trump's confirmation goes through um but a lot of people were wondering what that Dynamic would be like between Matt gets at the top and a Todd blanch sort of you know a more uh you know a more traditional figure right under Underneath Him regardless blanch is going to be doing a lot of day-to-day work running that agency so he's still going to have a lot of power no matter who's above him and it's curious when"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_71ntKLgFw&t=440s)

### Example 3
> "So absolutely spectacular journal, science, nature and cell being the apex journals of scientific publishing. Gets at this issue of where in our mind and how do we assess whether or not what we are feeling internally is reasonable given what's going on externally."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 101:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31wjVhCcI5Y&t=6090s)

### Example 4
> "gets at two different aspects voting gets at bonding and bridging uh by and large and and again I would I would defend this against those in the room"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 75:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx4Ii5tueDo&t=4537s)

### Example 5
> "that gets at these skills?"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoTlMNamSAg&t=671s)

### Example 6
> "of gets at what I was going to ask."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 40:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2APK3tlPL_0&t=2431s)

### Example 7
> "And so when you think about what certain experiences are like, what it's like to be a bat, what it's like to be a bee, this gets at the, I think, I think this gets at our intuition for what consciousness is in a more direct way than some of the language does."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNNs2EhroVw&t=359s)

### Example 8
> "- What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. That gets at the idea, the psychological principle of 'Antifragility.' It's a wonderful term. That's actually a clunky, ugly term, but it was made up by Nassim Taleb because we don't have a word for this in English language,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISjRSek5Xbs&t=37s)

### Example 9
> "and one of them is: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That gets at the idea, the psychological principle, of anti-fragility. It’s a wonderful term."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzGH97DQzA4&t=16s)

### Example 10
> "move outside of a context a physical context where the Norms are not so clear everyone gets at risk again so being in the office after hours late at night is an example or going to a bar after a big meeting or being at an offsite or being"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 20:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywKeb4XM8-o&t=1226s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [gets](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/gets)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "gets at" correctly?
"gets at" is pronounced `/dʒɛtsæt/`. Syllable breakdown: **get·sat**.

### What does "gets at" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "gets at" in daily English.

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