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put across

verb as in convey

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A large sign had been put across the main track running through the camp reading "Cambodia needs peace – final".

From BBC

“And that comes from her dark and very sad past and how long she has been thinking about killing Joel. That’s the energy I was hoping to put across.”

Six decades later, though, “Dance to the Music” still communicates a sense of boundless joy — even as it puts across a flicker of doubt about going so nice-and-smiley.

"I love fusion and I think it's something that needs to be put across, that all music basically is one music."

From BBC

This enabled us to film pictures which sufficiently put across the savagery of the storm, without taking a major safety risk.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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