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set up

[set-uhp] / ˈsɛtˌʌp /




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The teachers have also set up camp near the World Cup fan zone in Mexico City's Zocalo square.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

“Start looking now, but set up price alerts to watch the fares for you, then just make sure to get something locked in around the two-month-out mark,” she says.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

His first show, “Entertainers With Byron Allen,” packaged the five-minute celebrity interviews during hotel press junkets, a conveyor belt of actors promoting their latest projects set up by the studios into an hourlong talk show.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Judge Hirst added there was no evidence of any legitimate trading at the plastics companies set up by Hussain.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

They were a little ways down the path, where they had set up a demonstration of their own.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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