puts across

present tense third-person singular of put across

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Verb
  • The Barabasi Lab’s Nature 150, for instance, conveys the importance of intellectual influence by creating a galaxy-like network of scientific papers and allowing users to travel through its colorful constellations of nodes and links.
    Big Think, Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Nkrumah was crucial in jumpstarting the Ghanaian film industry, building a studio to produce work that conveys an Africa that defies the expectations promoted by colonizers.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the Turing test, a judge communicates by text with two unseen interlocutors—one human, one machine—and tries to tell them apart.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
  • More news to know now Hegseth clamped down on how the military communicates with Congress.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
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