place into

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In Portland, Ore., an independent service station owner turned off his pumps and turned his place into a drive-through taco shop.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

And to choose someone with the credibility, both in the financial markets and at the Fed, to whip the place into shape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

A Home Office inquiry is currently taking place into the conditions at Manston.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

Others might be ambiguous in the sense of being hard to place into a category.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2024

But these merely serve to conceal the fact that cartography transforms place into space.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton