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put forth

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put forth
to do what is necessary to achieve something. The effort put forth by every employee of the town and every rescue worker was remarkable.
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put forth something
to offer something for consideration. We can put forth some guidelines for what you should write about in your essay. We tried to put something forth that's really sincere.
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Soon the trees put forth their buds, and flowers sprang up under his feet, and instead of thick clouds there was blue sky over his head, and everywhere the birds were singing.
And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobble-stones --so goes the story --to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?
That, in the prison he had found a self-appointed Tribunal sitting, before which the prisoners were brought singly, and by which they were rapidly ordered to be put forth to be massacred, or to be released, or (in a few cases) to be sent back to their cells.
 
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