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  • You are a smart gogetter and that is what we need.

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  • For Rahul has cultivated the image of a gogetter who has a heart for the poor and the downtrodden. and by mingling with tribals and the like, he is passing off as a man of the masses.

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  • The gogetter followed the brontosaurus to extinction, and we Americans with the foresight to carry on our businesses from new bases profited by the unAmerican backwardness of our competitors.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • 'Tina was beautiful, feisty, great fun and a real gogetter.

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  • I’d be possessed of at Latouche’s, begor, I’d sink it sumtotal, every dolly farting, in vestments of subdominal poteen at prime cost and I bait you my chancey oldcoat against the whole ounce you half on your backboard (if madamaud strips mesdamines may cold strafe illglands!) that I’m the gogetter that’d make it pay like cash registers as sure as there’s a pot on a pole.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • And although the image we have of John is hardly that of a worldly political gogetter, our conception of that coldly righteous figure comes from the pages of the Jesus movement’s propaganda—the New Testament Gospels.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • And although the image we have of John is hardly that of a worldly political gogetter, our conception of that coldly righteous figure comes from the pages of the Jesus movement’s propaganda—the New Testament Gospels.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • “All the other young men went to work at big accounting firms,” she says, “but Bud wasn’t like other boys, he was a gogetter.”

    Still Waters JENNIFER LAUCK 2001

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