get right

Idioms  

1. Understand accurately or do correctly, as in If I get it right, you're not leaving until tomorrow, or The faucet works perfectly; the plumber finally got it right. [First half of 1900s]

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get right

It’s a tough market to get right, however, as upper-end homes continue to appreciate, but other pockets of the market not as much.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

At Forum AI, we built an independent system to evaluate how the leading AI models handle politically sensitive topics and current events, one of the hardest things for them to get right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

“If this geopolitical overhang starts to dissipate, we think we get right back to a really strong fundamental picture for the economy,” he added.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

Nguyen said working with trans writers meant being able to laugh at typical tropes in storytelling and get right to work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

He would get right down on the floor and wrestle, the way they used to.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

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