get wind of
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It was the one point the SBU worried most that the FSB might get wind of the operation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
Get organized: The minute you get wind of a possible layoff, start readying your finances, medical needs and personal belongings.
From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022
Investors use them to shadow chief executives to get wind of corporate mergers.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022
How did you get wind of the show?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2020
“I get wind of much misplaced criticism, by men as clever even as Burnham, because of impressions from incomplete work and undeveloped compositions,” he wrote.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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