put in

as in to plant
to put or set into the ground to grow put in a crop of winter wheat

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Recent Examples of put in Brandt Snedeker once told USA Today that putting at Augusta was like putting in a bathtub. Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 The South Florida Water Management District is working with the Army Corps of Engineer and county officials on an expensive plan to put in 20 new pumps and raise spillway gates. Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2025 As the crowd urged Washington to put in Smart late in the game, the former Celtics fan favorite was involved in an apparent altercation with an individual behind the Wizards bench. Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 7 Apr. 2025 Plans to eventually pass the franchise on to his sons Mike and Dan are already being put in place. Andrew Wagner, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for put in
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  • Nearly two decades before U.S. President Donald Trump eyed the strategic value of Greenland for the U.S., Russian explorers planted their country's flag on the seabed 14,000 feet below the North Pole.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
  • James’ timber and forestry operation, based in New Brunswick, has planted more than a billion trees since 1957.
    Roy Canivel, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
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  • In the lead-up to March Madness, the NCAA Selection Committee was tasked with seeding 68 teams, a process informed by seven different ranking systems.
    Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Start cucumbers, squash and melons in large pots now for transplant in a few weeks or seed them directly in the ground toward the end of the month.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
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  • For the study, the researchers drilled two-gram samples out of the inner walls of two vessel fragments excavated by Schliemann.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The rover drilled the Cumberland sample from an area within a crater called Yellowknife Bay, which resembled an ancient lake bed.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025

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“Put in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/put%20in. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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