Definition

　　transitive verb

　　1a: to gather into storage

　　b: to deposit as if in a granary

　　volumes in which he has garnered the fruits of his lifetime labors

　　—Reinhold Niebuhr

　　2 a: to acquire by effort : EARN

　　garnered much praise for his fundraising

　　b: ACCUMULATE, COLLECT

　　Synonyms

　　accumulate, amass, assemble, bulk(up),

       collect, concentrate, congregate, constellate,

       corral, gather, group, lump, pick up, round up

　　Example Sentences

　　She garnered more evidence to support her theory.

　　The senator has spent much time garnering financial support for his upcoming campaign.

　　The novel has garnered much praise and several awards.

　　By 2023, Google will collect 26.5% of U.S. digital ad spending and Meta will garner 18.4%, Insider Intelligence estimates.

　　—Megan Graham, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022

　　Incumbents can seek to group communities that will garner them and their allies the most votes, which can involve issues of race.

　　—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022

　　Writing a weekly note for the Daily Telegraph was lucrative, $330,000 a year, which fellow hacks calculated to garner him $2,755 an hour.

　　—William Booth, Washington Post, 9 July 2022