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put up to
verb as in actuate
verb as in drive
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verb as in goad
verb as in incite
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verb as in instigate
verb as in push
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verb as in spur
verb as in urge
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Example Sentences
Later, he took back many of those supposed admissions and said he had been put up to the claims by a fame-seeking lawyer.
"These aren't missions that you put up to be cheap and quick, to solve small problems; this is complex. The reason Earthcare has taken so long is because we want the gold standard," said Dr Beth Greenaway, the head of Earth observation at the UK Space Agency.
“There were some small flares put up to insider types, people who knew us,” said board Chairman Kevin Dretzka.
The official said the net was also being put up to protect a nearby dental practice, which was suffering from visitors parking in its spaces without permission and even climbing on the building's roof to clinch the best picture.
Trump again utilized the strategy of appealing everything in sight, when he appealed the bond he was required to put up to allow for his appeal of the civil judgment that Judge Arthur Engoron issued in the NY business fraud case.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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