make

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as in to estimate
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement I make that to be about six feet long

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as in to seem
to give the impression of being the family made merry despite their financial worries

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as in to shut
chiefly dialect to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening make the gate when ye leave

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Recent Examples of make Tuttle drew on his own childhood memories to create a story that clearly represents the kind of dangerous art Moore wants to keep making. Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025 All three of the show’s official seasons have made Netflix’s Top 10 list for at least a few weeks. Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025 Her goal is to make vintage approachable while still offering a selection of luxury pieces. Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025 Whether styled with a billowy fall dress or a trench coat and trousers, these are all fail-proof options—made even better with special promotions. Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for make
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  • Meet Nashville's new crime-fighting Clydesdale Metro Nashville mounted patrol officer Michael Douglas squeezed a three-foot-long rubber chicken, producing an increasingly louder and closer screeching sound to try and provoke a 1,700-pound Clydesdale named Ross.
    Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Now the podcast era produces orders of magnitude more hours of political commentary than any human can consume.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • Smart nutrition management all through the season always works better than trying to achieve stunning results with last minute fertilizer fixes.
    Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The 22-game run lasted from January 16, 1897, to September 18 later that year and helped the Birmingham club do the double of league title and FA Cup in the spring — something that wouldn’t be achieved again until Tottenham Hotspur replicated it in 1960-61.
    Will Jeanes, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • The Department of Homeland Security has detained hundreds of TPS holders from Venezuela nationwide, creating confusion about how the protections are being applied.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats want to overturn spending cuts Republicans approved earlier in the year for Medicaid, which provides health insurance for Americans living in or near poverty, and extend insurance subsidies created by the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
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  • Only three rookies have accomplished that feat since the introduction of the 3-point line during the 1979-80 season.
    Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • What the subsidies accomplished The enhanced subsidies drove ACA marketplace participation to historic highs – more than 24 million people selected plans for 2025, up from about 11 million in 2020.
    Christopher Robertson, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • The rally aimed to compel Starbucks to finalize the collective bargaining contract for improved staffing, shift hours, take-home pay and on-the-job protections for its baristas.
    Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
  • And yet, today, a few pieces of evidence are compelling us to reconsider this scenario.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Dillon Maroney, Tarrant County Precinct 4 executive administrator of operations, estimated that Segment 1 will be ready to break ground in March 2026.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • The broad international effort has built widespread support for the latest ceasefire and raised hopes that this one will last.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Considered one of the most precise and dependable strategic weapons ever built, the Trident II remains a cornerstone of the US and UK’s nuclear deterrence forces, operated by the US Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs and the Royal Navy.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • Investors seem to have dismissed those concerns.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But the Democratic Party seems to prefer a selective vision of free speech, one that ignores the most glaring and visible current example of suppression.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025

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