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?

Example Sentences

While marches, protests and rallies form a major part of Pride around the world, live music and performances are put on to draw even bigger crowds.

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Some YouTube videos are fully AI-generated - for example long videos which people might put on to help them go to sleep, says Lars Erik Holmquist, professor of design and innovation at Nottingham Trent University.

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"You are put on to a machine that has a needle in both arms," she said.

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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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