put across

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Recent Examples of put across Stalin’s resolute putting across of these two ideas, of course, did much to divide the world. Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 24 Mar. 2025 The Finnish conductor, 39, is a singular sight before an orchestra — bushy-haired, bony, and armed with an arsenal of gestures that put across his intentions with striking specificity. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025 The downside of putting across the board tariffs in place, McCaul added, is consumer prices could increase. Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025 Very few directors working today can put across a movie like Gladiator II as convincingly, which perhaps explains why the sequel — for all its barbaric violence and the plaintive, at times stirring, discussions about justice and democracy — doesn’t have the mournful quality that the first film did. Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024 Yet the Chills’ music put across an abiding belief in the power of a great song. Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2024 This production — directed, like the original, by Des McAnuff — won’t provide that, being less interested in trying to put across the story (by McAnuff and Townshend) than in obscuring it with relentless noise and banal imagery. Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024 This gesture did not read so well in the church’s large space, with intrusions from outdoor sounds and indoor fans; the breathing could have been exaggerated more to put across Trumbore’s point. Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for put across
Verb
  • At 48 years old, the veteran has been used to put over the next generation of superstars.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The market is putting over 85% odds on a cut, according to the CME FedWatch tool.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Registration helps animal herd officials communicate with livestock owners about disease outbreaks.
    Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The report also detailed the slow alert process, in which evacuation zones had to be communicated through multiple emergency management departments and personnel before being sent through the notification system.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One Battle After Another is full of pointed little moments like that, details that are at first funny — Lockjaw’s too-tight shirts, a group of separatists’ badly done face tattoos — but ultimately convey contempt for people who wield their power exclusively to hurt others.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But part of the job of a pharaoh was to convey the message that the gods of the natural world were specifically and forever shining down upon them.
    Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Put across.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/put%20across. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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