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put in (for)

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as in to request

to give a request or demand for several employees have already put in for vacation time during the last week of December

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The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act means the court cannot order Meta to request children to submit personal data or be passively tracked online, even for age verification purposes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
Neither Wells’ official state autopsy nor the autopsy requested by his family has provided clear answers about the teen’s death.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

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