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On Wednesday, upside bets were back in vogue with call options outnumbering puts by a ratio of 1.3-to-1.

From Reuters Nov. 10, 2021

This done, he returns to his store, puts by the papers he has not sold, takes a basket, fills it with apples, oranges, and bananas, and starts again.

From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn

Even the Great Bear puts by his seven lustres, and the diamond belt of Orion is unseen.

From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

Her face speaks peace; while vengeance inwardly   Her heart demands, and but to this attends:   She many things revolves, accepts, puts by;   Or, as of doubtful issue, some suspends.

From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose

In order to indulge this taste, every one dries in the sun the seeds of all the melons he eats during the summer, and puts by his stock for the winter.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell



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