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The final meeting puts about eight people total — the combination of three quarterbacks and five coaches — in a hotel room.
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
But the smugglers put about 50 people, each paying at least €2,000, into each boat (the boats, usually eight metres by two metres, are actually designed for about ten passengers).
—The Week Uk, theweek, 1 Dec. 2024
Boeing fuselage maker Spirit AeroSystems earlier this week put about 700 Wichita, Kansas, workers on a 21-day furlough.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
The signing of Act 231 this year put about $10 million aside for the department to bolster its invasive species work and biosecurity, after lawmakers pressured the DOA to do a better job.
—CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
But the smugglers put about 50 people, each paying at least €2,000, into each boat (the boats, usually eight metres by two metres, are actually designed for about ten passengers).
—The Week Uk, theweek, 1 Dec. 2024
Boeing fuselage maker Spirit AeroSystems earlier this week put about 700 Wichita, Kansas, workers on a 21-day furlough.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
The signing of Act 231 this year put about $10 million aside for the department to bolster its invasive species work and biosecurity, after lawmakers pressured the DOA to do a better job.
—CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for put about
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The request from Republican U.S. Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, chairman of the Oversight Committee, came about a month after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson testified before the same committee about the city’s similar policies.—
Dan Petrella,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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What's next: The first 11 new trash trucks are anticipated to replace old ones in the coming month, with the others coming about a year later.—
Jason Clayworth,
Axios,
9 Apr. 2025
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Fred Couples turned back the clock Thursday but couldn’t quite recreate that magic Friday (still timeless!).—
Sam Settleman,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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President Trump’s tariff plan appears determined to turn back the clock, and nowhere does his plan defy common sense more than with those same spices that Marco Polo and countless others in the ancient world journeyed for years to bring to the world.—
Hank Tucker,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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For the coming round, various complexities in the French electoral system make predictions difficult.—
Laura King,
Los Angeles Times,
5 July 2024
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These public statements signal political will by many leading G-20 members, making the coming round of G-20 meetings in September an opportune time to act.—
Landry Signé,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Apr. 2023
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In Sunday’s season finale, Tim sets out to poison his family with a fatal batch of piña coladas only to change his mind a sip or two in.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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As part of a health movement, the capital city of Montevideo banned dining establishments from setting out the high-sodium condiments.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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Simeone set off sprinting down the line in celebration, but quickly got his emotions back under control, knowing there was a long way still to go in the tie.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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There, his preternatural musical ability sets off a chain of supernatural events.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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Drastic cuts to the 9/11 program were reversed earlier this year after Republican lawmakers sounded the alarm.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
6 Apr. 2025
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There was no response to an inquiry about whether the firings would be reversed.—
Meg Tirrell,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2025
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