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Recent Examples of put by Shares jumped nearly 9% on the news Friday and traded roughly 2½ times the average daily options volume, with calls outpacing puts by well over 4:1. Michael Khouw, CNBC, 21 July 2025 Rose picked up well over five strokes on the field on the greens, leading the field in strokes gained putting by a wide margin. Justin Ray, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025 While a few noted that the croissant had decent flavor, most were off-put by the lack of color and dough-like texture. Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2024 When the smoke cleared, leaving stains on the green that didn’t affect their shots, Scheffler, who missed birdie puts by inches on 16 and 17, came up an inch short again on his 26-footer. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2024 This could be tariffs on Chinese imports put by the Trump administration, the soaring price of shipping during the pandemic supply-chain crisis, higher wages to attract workers or bad harvests of specific ingredients like cocoa. Alina Selyukh, NPR, 8 Mar. 2024 Truman answers the questions put by Pearl’s diners. Liz Smith, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024 Savings after selling a big home and buying a smaller one are negligible Older homeowners who want to downsize have been scared into staying put by how expensive a smaller home would be in the current market. Anna Bahney, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for put by
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  • We, in collaboration with our partners, store and/or access information on a user's device, including but not limited to IP addresses, unique identifiers, and browsing data stored in cookies, in order to process personal data.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Or bundle the thyme and store it like flowers in a jar filled with water and cover it loosely with a plastic bag.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2025
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  • The closed storage is deep enough to stash a hefty amount inside, but from the outside the stand doesn’t appear chunky, for lack of a better word.
    Lauren Arzbaecher, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Dale, who was closeted at the time of his death, leaves behind notes stashed inside his treasured first-edition books hinting that his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn) may have had something to do with his ostensible suicide.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • According to scholar Nadia Margolis, the key to Christine’s success with her various projects lay in her acute awareness of existing in a men’s world with a dramatically unfair power imbalance.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Besides laying in them, our cats also scratch on them, scent mark them and tear them into pieces.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Put by.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/put%20by. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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