put through
verb
put through; putting through; puts through
1
: to carry to a successful conclusion
put through a number of reforms
2
a
: to make a telephone connection for
b
: to obtain a connection for (a telephone call)
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Examples of put through in a Sentence
the incoming university president is vowing to put through the sort of sweeping changes that will propel the school into the top tier academically
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More than 2,000 scripts were submitted — double the number of a typical NHK screenplay competition — whittled down to 42 interviewees and 10 who were put through to the final WDR.
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
Just up the block, in a courtroom on the fifteenth floor of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, this sentiment was about to be put through an extreme, absurd, test.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Nominees will be put through a comprehensive and rigorous process of researching and scoring across a wide range of quantitative and qualitative criteria, including scalability, revenue and user growth, and the use of breakthrough technology.
—Cnbc.com Staff, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2025
Coursing through it all is a four-note theme, of three notes rising and one plunging, which is put through variations of pummeling force, patient tenderness and synth-pop maximalism.
—Oussama Zahr, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
Just up the block, in a courtroom on the fifteenth floor of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, this sentiment was about to be put through an extreme, absurd, test.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Nominees will be put through a comprehensive and rigorous process of researching and scoring across a wide range of quantitative and qualitative criteria, including scalability, revenue and user growth, and the use of breakthrough technology.
—Cnbc.com Staff, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2025
Coursing through it all is a four-note theme, of three notes rising and one plunging, which is put through variations of pummeling force, patient tenderness and synth-pop maximalism.
—Oussama Zahr, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Put through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/put%20through. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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