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Examples of receiving

receiving
The Farmton redevelopment plan may be receiving a warmer welcome in Tallahassee.
From the news-journalonline.com
Benford needs 30 yards to move to sixth on Tech's all-time receiving yards list.
From the tennessean.com
No one from Elam showed up at a PSC hearing Friday, despite receiving subpoenas.
From the kentucky.com
A woman accused of receiving the information from Bettencourt was also arrested.
From the sfgate.com
Law had to ask Pope John Paul II twice before receiving permission to step down.
From the stltoday.com
She believes that she has received a sign from God after receiving the surprise.
From the metro.co.uk
Currently, about 7 million Americans are receiving weekly unemployment benefits.
From the heraldtribune.com
This is the third time he has won the grant, also receiving it in 1998 and 2005.
From the nzherald.co.nz
He had a career-high five catches and 48 receiving yards with a score last week.
From the thenewstribune.com
More examples
  • Get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"
  • Receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
  • Pick up: register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"
  • Experience: go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
  • Express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees"
  • Accept as true or valid; "He received Christ"
  • (Reception (astrology)) In astrology, reception is a condition where one planet is located in a sign where a second planet has astrological dignity--for example, a sign which the second planet rules or in which it is exalted, or where the second planet is the triplicity ruler.
  • (Reception (school)) Reception or Primary 1 is the first year of primary school in the United Kingdom and South Australia. It is preceded by nursery and is followed by Year One in England and Wales or Primary 2 in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
  • (The Reception (film)) The Reception is 2005 feature film by American director John G. Young whose other films include Parallel Sons in 1995 and Rivers Wash Over Me in 2009. He wrote and directed the movie.