put together
Idioms-
Build, assemble, create, as in We put together the new bookcase , or This writer can't put together a coherent sentence . [First half of 1500s]
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Combine mentally, as in Once she put this and that together she knew exactly what had happened . [First half of 1600s] Also see put our heads together ; put two and two together .
Example Sentences
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“Yeah. I’ve got this program that animates drawings. Every year I put together a movie of one year in the Delgado family. I thought it would be fun to include an animated clip of Tadeo.”
From Literature
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The patrol monitors a wide area the size of France and Spain put together.
From Barron's
Ssentamu put together a team around Good Shepherd Primary school where he teaches.
From Barron's
Ben put together a search team to comb the property, just in case they’d been injured somewhere and needed help.
From Literature
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But now, according to several sources, that too is likely to be put together with other organisations to become a huge behemoth responsible for tackling the lot.
From BBC
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