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put out

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verb

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as in to exert
to bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively despite putting out her best effort, she was unable to beat her longtime tennis rival

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as in to publish
to produce and release for distribution in printed form though most of their sales are now transacted through the Internet, the company still puts out a mail-order catalog

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Recent Examples of put out
Verb
Murphy called on one of his high-leverage relievers to put out the fire. Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025 In 1985, the team put out a newspaper ad offering tryouts to women. NPR, 17 Oct. 2025 In recent years, Valley Water began a program like a roadside trash service — residents would put out trash in bags, and the agency would collect it in an effort to limit pollution in the waterways. Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025 But that order did not provide specifics apart from promising to put out a detailed report with recommendations on the issue by late May. Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for put out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for put out
Adjective
  • But those who disagree or have an outright distaste for NASCAR’s current playoff system only get more annoyed when Logano defends it.
    Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • People are annoyed and impatient.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Consensus on why and how things happened, of course, can be used to exert terrible will, and so perhaps there might be some potential good to be had in all this chaos.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Beneath the surface of this agrarian life, traditional gender roles exert a powerful force.
    Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Firefighters discovered an electrical fire on the yacht’s upper deck upon arriving at the scene and extinguished the flames, the department told USA TODAY.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Rescuers work to extinguish a fire caused by a Russian glide bomb at a hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ball doesn’t seem annoyed by the memes yet, but the NBA season hasn’t officially started, so there’s still time.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • He was annoyed when people advocated that.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The picture, posted on the club’s Instagram account, showed Bellingham suspended in mid-air, with a purple elastic band around the sole of his boots and holding a kettlebell weighing around 14 kilograms (31lb).
    Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The 50% tariff on top US exporter Brazil, which has seen its coffee bean supply shrink due to a drought, weighs the heaviest on businesses.
    Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The History of Emily Montague was published in 1769, but the Canadian Confederation—the alliance of the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia into an independent country separate from Great Britain—didn’t occur until 1867.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Following her pregnancy and evolving career, Krouse began dealing with sensitive, irritated skin and was struggling to find safe, but effective products.
    Emily Burns, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The skin under your arms is delicate and can be easily irritated.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The chain embellishment was applied to multiple styles, be in the short pump or a taller slingback, and stood out against different colors.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Use a mop to apply the bleach solution to the floors, covering a small area at a time and working in a figure-eight or side-to-side pattern.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025

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