set up in (something)
phrasal verb
set up in (something); setting up in (something); sets up in (something)
: to start one's own business
He set up in business after finishing college.
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As of Monday afternoon a GoFundMe account set up in Derbing’s name to assist his family had raised $94,935.
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Harry Harris, Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
This shocking report on what would come to be known as the Holocaust was based on firsthand eyewitness accounts provided by Solomon Wiener and Michael (pronounced Mee-Cha-El) Podchlebnik, two escapees from Chełmno, one of the first extermination camps set up in Poland.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
An Elgin Township volunteer had delivered the soup kettle meal to the makeshift food pantry set up in the hotel’s lounge area only minutes earlier.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
Boston police arrested over 100 people last year at an Emerson College encampment set up in the Boylston Place Alley in downtown Boston.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
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Harry Harris, Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
This shocking report on what would come to be known as the Holocaust was based on firsthand eyewitness accounts provided by Solomon Wiener and Michael (pronounced Mee-Cha-El) Podchlebnik, two escapees from Chełmno, one of the first extermination camps set up in Poland.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
An Elgin Township volunteer had delivered the soup kettle meal to the makeshift food pantry set up in the hotel’s lounge area only minutes earlier.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
Boston police arrested over 100 people last year at an Emerson College encampment set up in the Boylston Place Alley in downtown Boston.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
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