PUTS BY Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

puts by

verb

present tense third-person singular of put by

as in stores

to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place have money put by for an emergency

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Recent Examples of puts by More than twice as many Palantir calls traded than puts by volume Monday, with traders buying 56,000 calls and fewer than 25,000 puts, according to ThinkOrSwim data. — Oliver Renick, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026

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Nine days earlier, OpenAI disclosed that its own models had broken out of a testing environment and compromised Hugging Face, the platform where much of the open machine learning world stores its models and datasets.

— Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
CyberGuy previously reported that a Washington judge ruled Flock license plate reader images can qualify as public records, even when a private company stores the files for a city.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026

Definition of stores

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This one stashes easily in a bag, adds a warming layer while in flight, can be worn as a scarf, and adds a dressy element to even casual looks.

— Tanya Sharma, PEOPLE, 2 Aug. 2026
The larger case easily stows a Kindle or iPad Mini, power bank, digital camera, earbuds, and more; the smaller one stashes cords and adapters.

— Morgan Ashley Parker, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2026

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Software built that way accumulates weight rather than value, and its usable lifespan shrinks instead of extending.

— Muhammad Muzammil Rawjani, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
As the gas rapidly accumulates within these tiny crevices, the bubbles expand almost instantaneously and push the beverage violently out of the bottle to create a soda fountain, also called a geyser.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026

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