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
  • The problem starts in the part of the system that handles how a store communicates with other online services.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Things take a turn for the whimsical when, with the help of some lightning — and later, Taffy’s tanning bed — Lisa finds a companion in an undead, Victorian-era Cole Sprouse, a hopeless romantic who communicates exclusively in grunts, and whose devotion to Lisa knows no bounds.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
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