put up

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as in to store
to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability I need to clear out a space in the garage to put up my motorcycle for the winter

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Recent Examples of put up If history is any indication, probably only a fraction will actually be put up. Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025 After all — just like in 1975 — Mizzou has a talented running back who could very well put up serious yardage Saturday. Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025 Didn’t Gallieni also allow Captain Girard to massacre the entire village of Ambiky on August 29, 1897, and decapitate King Toera of the Sakalavas, who had put up a great resistance against the French colonial advance? Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025 Belichick’s latest loss was a blowout at the hands of Clemson at home, 38-10, where the Tigers put up 28 points in the first quarter and coasted to victory from there. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for put up
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  • While stadiums and luxury hotels are erected, hospitals remain overcrowded and rural areas underserved.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The group was later able to recover the statue — with the figures ripped from their pedestals and broken into pieces — and set about trying to re-erect it.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • The broad international effort has built widespread support for the latest ceasefire and raised hopes that this one will last.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Considered one of the most precise and dependable strategic weapons ever built, the Trident II remains a cornerstone of the US and UK’s nuclear deterrence forces, operated by the US Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs and the Royal Navy.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • There were 16 sites in 2016, when Roberts first took minority private equity funding from BGF, later selling a majority stake to Fremman in 2021, remaining as CEO.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • The Tang Wing, a collaboration with the architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle, will also house rotating special exhibitions, requiring blank canvases of sorts.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The team performed the measurements using the JYFLTRAP double-Penning trap, which is a world-class instrument housed in the university’s accelerator laboratory.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • The vessel will plot an 18-day course from the Chinese port of Ningbo-Zhoushan to Felixstowe in the UK, accompanied by ice breakers.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Soon, Crusifino left The D'Angelo Family after being accused of plotting against the stable.
    Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • These tiny plastic pieces emerge as bottles are made, stored, transported and broken down, and shed particles when they’re manipulated and exposed to sunlight or temperature changes, experts cautioned.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Some startups are turning these advances into real technologies – from storing gases more safely, to pulling clean water straight from desert air, to building more energy-efficient air conditioners.
    Stavroula Alina Kampouri, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • In November, Jackson terminated Gatlin for swindling millions of dollars from the Foundation as executives privately reeled over her betrayal of the hospital system’s fundraising arm, which raises tens of millions to benefit Jackson’s patients.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Experts at Sweetbriar said the effort was not just about saving one insect but also about raising awareness.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • As the fireline is constructed, inspected or reinforced, mappers record those details to adjust the containment percentage.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • From the 1960s through the early 2000s, developers constructed malls at a breakneck pace, far exceeding sustainable demand.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Put up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/put%20up. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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