1
as in to inter
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
the naval authorities put away the body yesterday
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as in to assassinate
to put to death deliberately
after a hit man had put away her husband, she'd be free to marry her lover
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3
as in to eat
to take in as food
can easily put away an entire bowl of popcorn at a single sitting
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Invest time in improving your sleep hygiene, which means taking steps like avoiding caffeine and alcohol in the evening, limiting naps, and putting away electronics before bed, Miravalle advises.
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Angela Haupt, TIME, 17 Oct. 2024
The future of work depends on putting away the sword and picking up the social contract.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
There was a time when Buehler could put away hitters with his fastball.
—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
Eduardo Camavinga’s handball at the end of the first half allowed Jonathan David to put away a penalty, not long after he had been kept out by reserve keeper Andriy Lunin’s brilliant double save.
—George Ramsay, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
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Angela Haupt, TIME, 17 Oct. 2024
The future of work depends on putting away the sword and picking up the social contract.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
There was a time when Buehler could put away hitters with his fastball.
—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
Eduardo Camavinga’s handball at the end of the first half allowed Jonathan David to put away a penalty, not long after he had been kept out by reserve keeper Andriy Lunin’s brilliant double save.
—George Ramsay, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
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Payne’s funeral will reportedly be held in St Paul’s Cathedral in Wolverhampton, where he will be interred.Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 5 Nov. 2024
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The bones excavated at the site were returned to King William Island in 1994 and interred in a memorial cairn.Katie Hunt, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
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The year after Lincoln was assassinated by slavery supporter John Wilkes Booth, strip-mining of coal got started in Lincoln’s home state of Illinois.Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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In Munich, demobilized soldiers, right-wing paramilitaries, and Communist militants fought in the streets, while leaders of the new Weimar Republic were routinely assassinated.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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New this year to True Nature is a retreat for those with eating disorders and their family members.Plain Dealer guest writer, cleveland.com, 19 July 2017
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However hot dogs may have originated, the council estimates Americans will eat 7 billion of them between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day.Don Sweeney, sacbee, 19 July 2017
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Some family members choose to bury their heads in the sand and blame the victim rather than the offender.Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Daniel Hunter, founder of Choose Democracy, an organization that provides resources to help Americans prepare for an undemocratic power grab, says his experience in activism has taught him that the solution isn’t to bury your head in the sand or jump to the worst-case scenario.Allie Volpe, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
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The key event of Mann’s conversion came in June, when ultranationalists in Berlin murdered his friend Walther Rathenau, the Weimar Republic’s Jewish foreign minister.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Steven Lawson, charged with tampering with physical evidence and conspiracy to murder, will be tried separately from his son, Joseph Lawson, and Brooks Houck, who are also charged with tampering with physical evidence and conspiracy to murder, according to court records.Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
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If necessary, vampire bats can gorge and consume four times their body weight in liquid.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Koalas spend most of their time sleeping and eating — consuming a diet mostly of eucalyptus leaves.Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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Homicides last year were down from 2022, when 226 people were slain, and 2021, when a record 271 were killed.John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Nov. 2024
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Playing with the concept that people are at their most vulnerable while sleeping, Craven created a horror icon with Freddy Krueger (played with gusto by Robert Englund), an evil entity seeking revenge for his murder by slaying the children of his killers in their dreams.Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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NuScale executed a revenue generating agreement with Fluor (FLR) for engineering and design services for a nuclear power project.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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China practiced blockading Taiwan just last month by surrounding the island, which could, if executed in earnest, stop imports or exports from the country.Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Put away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/put%20away. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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