puts down

present tense third-person singular of put down
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as in enters
to put (someone or something) on a list put her down as one of the chaperones for the field trip

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as in attributes
to explain (something) as being the result of something else a fender bender that probably can be put down to the young driver's inexperience

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Recent Examples of puts down Private Mortgage Insurance, known as PMI, is typically required when a buyer puts down less than 20% of the purchase price. Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Verb
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Verb
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Verb
  • Once the wind enters the open valley, the velocity decreases, and the grains are deposited.
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    Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While the presumption was always that Messi would renew with the Herons, the news quells any lingering anxiety.
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  • Twenty years later, an adult Guinevere is building her ghostwriting career when her estranged artist brother announces an installation titled Mother, which quells disturbing revelations in Guinevere.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Michael Sutton, a redevelopment coordinator of no relation to Fran Sutton, attributes the vastness of the land bank, particularly in northeast Wyandotte, to 20th century redlining and southward and westward flight of the county’s white, wealthy and middle class families.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2025
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Verb
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Verb
  • The washer minimizes water usage by intelligently recycling and filtering during each stage.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This precaution minimizes electrical hazards during flooding.
    Southern California Weather Report, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For an artist who had alchemized his collection of Prince, A Tribe Called Quest, Roberta Flack, and Marvin Gaye records into a beautiful sound of his own, this was never a slight.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
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    Danielle DuClos, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Puts down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puts%20down. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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