set by

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1. Put aside for future use, as in She had shelves and shelves of cans set by for some imagined food emergency. [Late 1500s] Also see set aside, def. 1; set store by.

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Official selling prices are monthly rates set by national oil companies for term-contract customers and are typically pegged to regional crude benchmarks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The presenter, 51, left the programme during its live broadcast, appearing to clutch her chest as she was assisted off the set by co-host Dermot O'Leary.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Of the 186,000 ARMs expected to reset in 2027, 1 in 5 are jumbo loans, which are bigger mortgages that exceed the conforming-loan limits set by federal regulators.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

A library of radically changed visages, sliced and sculpted to fit the funhouse-mirror beauty standards set by a handful of influential men.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

The challenge set by Descartes was, of course, that of building an automaton that could behave like an animal.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton