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The phrase "getting a pass" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is being excused from a responsibility or given permission to avoid a certain obligation.
Example: "After explaining my situation to the teacher, I was relieved to find out I was getting a pass on the assignment."
Alternatives: "being excused" or "receiving a waiver."
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Why is Odd Future essentially getting a pass from the music industry and media for their homophobia and misogyny?
QUESTION FROM BR: Why are the 9/11 families who have said irrational, hateful things getting a pass?
Angel put the Red Bulls ahead, 1-0, after getting a pass from Henry and putting a shot into the upper left of the net.
Far from getting a pass from the "elite media," many outlets reported on this tempest-in-a-teacup during the 2008 campaign.
"The answer is, he is not getting a pass," said Sherry Goldman, a spokeswoman for the Writers Guild of America East.
And several suggested that it's the mother, not the daughter, who stayed "under wraps," getting a pass from the press in her Senate race.
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(The eighties get a pass).
He got a pass".
Or do they get a pass?
And yet somehow Stalin gets a pass.
For some reason, grandparents get a pass.
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