put over
verb
put over; putting over; puts over
3
: to achieve or carry through by deceit or trickery
put one over on me
Examples of put over in a Sentence
as a result of a medical emergency, our dream vacation had to be put over to the following year
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Lynch could return to challenge or put over someone for the U.S. title.
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Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Because his drug was a gene therapy, public grant money and private philanthropy played an especially central role, with the National Institutes of Health alone putting over $450 million into science related to SMA.
—Robin Fields, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
Because his drug was a gene therapy, public grant money and private philanthropy played an especially central role, with the National Institutes of Health alone putting over $450 million into science related to SMA.
—Robin Fields, ProPublica, 12 Feb. 2025
Severe threat diminishes On Sunday, the storm system pushed its way east, putting over 20 million people from the eastern Gulf Coast to the Carolinas at risk of extreme weather.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2024
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Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Because his drug was a gene therapy, public grant money and private philanthropy played an especially central role, with the National Institutes of Health alone putting over $450 million into science related to SMA.
—Robin Fields, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
Because his drug was a gene therapy, public grant money and private philanthropy played an especially central role, with the National Institutes of Health alone putting over $450 million into science related to SMA.
—Robin Fields, ProPublica, 12 Feb. 2025
Severe threat diminishes On Sunday, the storm system pushed its way east, putting over 20 million people from the eastern Gulf Coast to the Carolinas at risk of extreme weather.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Put over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/put%20over. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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