put paid to
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Last year a study put paid to magical thinking.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025
Maybe the dramatic rise and rise of 20-year-old England back rower Pollock put paid to his chances also.
From BBC • May 8, 2025
Injury put paid to her 2023 plan and the Scot feels "rushing" her marathon training contributed to the injuries that meant she was unable to run for nearly six months.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2025
That ouster put paid to the hegemony of Meir's centre-left Labour party.
From Reuters • Oct. 17, 2023
And a chap like that was to put "paid" to the account of Sylvanus Heythorp, to "scratch" him out of life—so near the end of everything, the very end!
From Five Tales by Galsworthy, John
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