put by

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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
Verb
  • Single service handles not stored facing one direction to minimize hand contact with the business end or with the handle facing upright.
    Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Rachel's wedding dress is currently being cleaned, and then will be stored in hopes of future use.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But as the months have passed, Juni has stopped stashing food, loves to nap, and seems so much more at ease.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Where else, the joke goes, would Colorado stash its pitching development lab?
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For Dickinson, the greater challenge lay in finding the right tone to strike around the film’s sensitive subject matter of homelessness and mental health.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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