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Recent Examples of put about
The final meeting puts about eight people total — the combination of three quarterbacks and five coaches — in a hotel room.
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
But the smugglers put about 50 people, each paying at least €2,000, into each boat (the boats, usually eight metres by two metres, are actually designed for about ten passengers).
—The Week Uk, theweek, 1 Dec. 2024
Boeing fuselage maker Spirit AeroSystems earlier this week put about 700 Wichita, Kansas, workers on a 21-day furlough.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
The signing of Act 231 this year put about $10 million aside for the department to bolster its invasive species work and biosecurity, after lawmakers pressured the DOA to do a better job.
—CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
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The request from Republican U.S. Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, chairman of the Oversight Committee, came about a month after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson testified before the same committee about the city’s similar policies.—
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What's next: The first 11 new trash trucks are anticipated to replace old ones in the coming month, with the others coming about a year later.—
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Fred Couples turned back the clock Thursday but couldn’t quite recreate that magic Friday (still timeless!).—
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President Trump’s tariff plan appears determined to turn back the clock, and nowhere does his plan defy common sense more than with those same spices that Marco Polo and countless others in the ancient world journeyed for years to bring to the world.—
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The first round of the 2025 NFL Draft April 24 is coming round the bend and at us like like a freight train.—
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For the coming round, various complexities in the French electoral system make predictions difficult.—
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The developer set out to convert the campus into 165 apartments.—
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But drawing from clues dropped by the show’s creators — as well as pure speculation — THR set out to map the Hollywood genomes of The Studio‘s principal players.—
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Judy Benjamin, PhD, now 80 years old, set off on Saturday, April 5, on a 3,000-mile journey across the country.—
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Until Wednesday, the president’s series of tariff announcements had set off expectations of sharply rising prices for households and businesses alike, raising a strong possibility that a spreading global trade war could send the U.S. economy spiraling into a recession and cause vast human hardship.—
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Earlier this year, national park operations were disrupted when President Donald Trump, via executive action, laid off hundreds of seasonal park employees before reversing course.—
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If upheld, the policy would reverse decades of immigration precedent.—
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“Put about.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/put%20about. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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