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View synonyms for put on to

put on to

verb

  1. to connect by telephone

  2. to inform (someone) of (a person's location or activities)

    I put the police on to him

  3. to tell (a person) about (someone or something beneficial)

    can you put me on to a cheap supermarket?

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"I'd have a binge with eating and then I'd be like, 'I need to train now to make sure these calories or this food isn't put on to me - which is an unhealthy way of being."

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"It was shocking, but not surprising. This was because I had been reminded at such a young age the currency and the power a woman holds when she is considered either beautiful or young, and now here I was going through the second phase of youth slipping away and feeling, once again, society's judgement and the label that they were going to put on to me."

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The photograph was put on to the Kensington Palace social media channels with the message: "Happy 10th Birthday Princess Charlotte!" along with a heart emoji.

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But when the Trump administration began its roundup of alleged members of foreign criminal gangs, Abrego Garcia was detained in Texas with other migrants facing deportation and then wrongly put on to a plane to El Salvador.

To help tackle that, a bin lorry was put on to collect some of the rubbish.

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