put down
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How, then, to explain the survival of Neal and Lynch, two longtime members of Congress who put down progressive challenges from first-time candidates last night?
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
Hours before a concert in Charleston, S.C., in 2023, Henry Threadgill asked the members of his Zooid quintet to put down their instruments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
They put down 10% for a $340,000 home with $2,600 in monthly costs, including a 30-year mortgage with a 6.1% interest rate, taxes, insurance and maintenance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Life returned to normal in Niger's capital Niamey on Sunday, after the military regime and its Russian paramilitary partners put down a mutiny by soldiers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
The woman at the counter put down the squirt bottle.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Trump, who has feuded with O'Donnell for decades, saw an opportunity for a put-down when the veteran comic's name came up during Wednesday's meeting.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
And let's not forget her iconic put-down to unwanted male attention that I'll admit to rolling out endlessly in my teens: "Ugh, as if!"
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
It was not only her contemptuous put-down: “You have no foreign policy experience and it shows.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
Industrial policy was for Europeans; a common put-down was that it was “dirigiste,” a French term for “directed.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
He gestures towards the general, who smiles inanely at his own put-down.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Trump's spokeswoman -- who is best known for her acid put-downs of journalists -- posted a picture of herself in a nursery, cradling her baby daughter to her chest.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
Plaza says that Waters is known for being provocative and loves reading tabloids but that he asked to tone down Armando’s snide put-downs of celebrities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
The first Stanford was made of real students, who defy tidy put-downs of “kids these days.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
His badinage is hardly Wildean, but his put-downs, honed to the sharpness of stilettos, are many people’s idea of fun.
From Salon ● May 8, 2024
At the colleges, I’ve developed some stock put-downs for them: “You must be a law student, aren’t you?”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
