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Example sentences for: puts

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The industry puts the cost of an air bag installed in a new car at about $500, not including "engineering spillovers," such as dashboard and steering-wheel redesign.
The ideology of work in modern society puts great emphasis on independence, on treating oneself entrepreneurially--but if you treat yourself as an independent agent, you don't establish much emotional connection to other people.
Elena McMahon has been propelled into a demimonde where, as the narrator puts it in a knowing pastiche of official jargon, those "trying to create a context for democracy" are "maybe getting [their] hands a little dirty in the process or just opting out, letting the other guy call it."
It all seems unpleasant and slightly absurd--the night guard is "an excellent form of birth control," as one wearer puts it--but the alternative is losing your teeth at 40, getting dentures, and gumming your food.
As geologist Nathan Winslow puts it in a gently skeptical review on self-organized criticality, "A theory can, once in the pop science regime, acquire a level of acceptance and momentum that may or may not be warranted by its actual scientific credibility."