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Also, put to rights. Place in proper condition or order. For example, The caterer promised to set the room to rights before he left, or Don't worry, the lawyer will put the will to rights. These terms date from the second half of the 1600s, although to rights in the sense of “in proper order” was first recorded about 1330. Also see set right.

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When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
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Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.
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In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.
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I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?
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Rashad was there to celebrate the release of the Civil Rights drama Selma.
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You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
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All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
She set off down Trafalgar Road in the mist and the rain, glad that she had been compelled to walk.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett

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