PUTS Synonyms: 247 Similar and Opposite Words

puts

verb

Definition of puts next

present tense third-person singular of put

as in situates

to arrange something in a certain spot or position you can put this box next to the bookshelf

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Relevance

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as in says

to convey in appropriate or telling terms tried to think of a good way of putting the news

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as in calculates

to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement put the time of the photograph at about noon

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as in imposes

to establish or apply as a charge or penalty a proposal to put a special tax on luxuries

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as in adjusts

to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation put the words of his patriotic poem to the tune of a well-known drinking song

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misadjusts

as in bets

to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event deciding to go for broke, he put $1000 on a horse that had 20 to 1 odds

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Recent Examples of puts Hopefully, this piece puts a smile on the face of anyone who lost someone in combat. —

David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2026 If a team is constantly putting out fires, that may hint at an arrangement that puts work before life. —

Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026 The move puts Rosewood ahead of statutory minimums across most of Asia, a region that has long lagged North America and Europe on parental benefits. —

Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 25 May 2026 The Witcher 3 puts you in the shoes of Geralt of Rivia, a man with decades of history, the subject of multiple games, books, and a TV show. —

ArsTechnica, 25 May 2026 Taking this step puts us, in a manner of speaking, miles ahead. —

Steven D. Reske, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026 Romano puts herself in the curious position of fighting a battle that has already been won on facts but not yet in legend. —

Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 What kind of developer puts his money into an indie documentary that might give his business-as-usual peers — not to mention investors, luxury condo buyers and other beneficiaries of Miami’s prolonged but problematic and plainly inequitable real-estate boom — a conniption? —

Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 18 May 2026 Anthropic has billed itself as the AI company that puts safety and risk-mitigation at the forefront of its research. —

ABC News, 18 May 2026

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Matthew Kriner, executive director of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism, said that the very creation of the video and document for public consumption strongly situates this attack within a specific subculture of far-right extremism.

— Odette Yousef, NPR, 27 May 2026
The disarmament thus takes place as an ecological project, one that situates AI within the broad sweep of human culture and that orients it towards human flourishing, not toward warfare, monopolistic power, or new inequalities.

— Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 25 May 2026