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Make famous, publicize, as in The incident got on the national news and put our community on the map. This expression, alluding to a locality that formerly was too small to put on a map, dates from the early 1900s.

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To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.
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Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
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Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
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Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
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He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
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Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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