put by
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One move was “product reconfiguration and qualifying lower-cost components,” as put by chief financial officer Karen Parkhill on the earnings call.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Simply put, by any measure, Riley’s offense has been much worse away from home this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
She said the ruling had failed to consider human rights arguments that would have been put by trans people and the judgement had left her with the legal "nonsense" of being "two sexes at once".
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
As concisely put by John Locke, the brilliant 17th-century political philosopher who inspired America’s founders, “Where law ends, tyranny begins.”
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2024
Upon my appearing, he put by his whisk and asked me how I fared.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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