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1. Come into possession of
   "How did you obtain the visa?"
    
2. Be subject to a specified treatment or analysis
   "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or obtain an interpretation";
   - receive, get, find, incur
    
3. Be valid, applicable, or true
   - prevail, hold

Derived forms: obtained, obtains, obtaining

Type of: acquire, be, change, exist, get