Instance
Put down
Put down verb - To express scornfully one's low opinion of.
Both terms in one sentence
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For instance, she burns down the elven slums of Halamshiral, killing 3,000 elves, to put down an elven rebellion so Gaspard can't use it to start a civil war.
Source: Literature / The Masked Empire - Rouge Angles of Satin: An instance of a concept that bears close similarity is ordinary bungled orthography—"tête-à-têtes" was put down on the page as "tetè-a-tetès" in chapter IV of Irene Iddesleigh.
Source: Creator / Amanda McKittrick Ros -
To win big in the ghetto, for instance, is a death sentence since nobody wants to feel put down.
Source: Film / In Time
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