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to place in a particular position
The commander deployed additional troops to the region this morning.
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Recent Examples of deploys
As President Cyril Ramaphosa deploys soldiers and orders probes into police corruption, widespread allegations of collusion with syndicates deepen residents’ mistrust and hinder investigations into such brazen attacks.
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Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026
Most of those launches, have been by SpaceX for SpaceX, as the company rapidly deploys its Starlink broadband constellation.
—Morgan Brennan,harriet Taylor, CNBC, 12 June 2026
Spaceflights led by Virgin Galactic resemble a traditional commercial aircraft takeoff on a runway as the company deploys an air-launch strategy to get its vehicles to the edge of space.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 3 June 2026
Sherrill deploys riot gear only after Fox News reported bare-bones police presence.
—FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
Collaboration is not a word Seehorn deploys casually.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 2 June 2026
From his desk at the center, Heitzman showed the Statesman how his team deploys one of the department’s three drone first responders, or DFRs, in less than a minute.
—Noah Daly
updated June 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 June 2026
The organization that deploys the system owns the decision context—and courts and regulators are beginning to treat deployment as a choice with consequences attached.
—Samuel Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Nevertheless, as befits a film partly backed by Wim Wenders’ Road Movies, this deploys an eclectic soundtrack and lashings of backlighting and magic hour cinematography to help capture the uncanny feeling of being a European stranger in a strange land of enchantment out west.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026
Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026
Most of those launches, have been by SpaceX for SpaceX, as the company rapidly deploys its Starlink broadband constellation.
—Morgan Brennan,harriet Taylor, CNBC, 12 June 2026
Spaceflights led by Virgin Galactic resemble a traditional commercial aircraft takeoff on a runway as the company deploys an air-launch strategy to get its vehicles to the edge of space.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 3 June 2026
Sherrill deploys riot gear only after Fox News reported bare-bones police presence.
—FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
Collaboration is not a word Seehorn deploys casually.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 2 June 2026
From his desk at the center, Heitzman showed the Statesman how his team deploys one of the department’s three drone first responders, or DFRs, in less than a minute.
—Noah Daly
updated June 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 June 2026
The organization that deploys the system owns the decision context—and courts and regulators are beginning to treat deployment as a choice with consequences attached.
—Samuel Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Nevertheless, as befits a film partly backed by Wim Wenders’ Road Movies, this deploys an eclectic soundtrack and lashings of backlighting and magic hour cinematography to help capture the uncanny feeling of being a European stranger in a strange land of enchantment out west.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deploys
Verb
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Dubbed the Velvet Gang, the trio snatches the overpriced, often monochromatic fashion threads designed by Christie Smith (Demi Moore, in a performance of comedic genius), a pretentious piece of work who stations herself in a leaning building (wink, win to San Francisco there).—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
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Instead, Boston stations him away from the basketball, the keeper of the weak side, free to flick away passes, kill screening actions with switches and, somehow, block shots.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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It's sturdily built, quick to set up and automatically locates night sky targets and provides crisp, clear views of them.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
8 June 2026
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Her thumb locates something hard yet delicate, and there is a slight clinking noise.—
Maggie O’Farrell,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
Verb
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My grandmother positions a chair in front of the windows of our sunroom, which look out onto the neighboring hills dotted with bungalows, Tuscan pines and tall palm trees.—
Zinzi Clemmons,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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The new Siri will include a stand-alone app, which positions it to compete more directly with tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
8 June 2026
Verb
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Space plants 36 to 48 inches apart, setting two strong transplants on a hill or mound.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
31 May 2026
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See what our founder plants in the shadow of her redwoods.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
29 May 2026
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Daly says the hotel installs flow limiters at the sinks, where a softer stream does not bother anyone shaving or washing up.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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Simone empties out the frivolities and installs her unique despair.—
Wesley Morris,
New York Times,
9 June 2026
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Matthew Kriner, executive director of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism, said that the very creation of the video and document for public consumption strongly situates this attack within a specific subculture of far-right extremism.—
Odette Yousef,
NPR,
27 May 2026
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The disarmament thus takes place as an ecological project, one that situates AI within the broad sweep of human culture and that orients it towards human flourishing, not toward warfare, monopolistic power, or new inequalities.—
Nate Anderson,
ArsTechnica,
25 May 2026
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