Lay
Set up
Set up verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
Usage example: set up tables in the living room for the party
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Actually, he's the Guy In Front, due to the way the Apache's seating arrangement is set up to give the gunner maximum visibility to lay in his weapons.
Source: Film / Fire Birds - Everything in the store is explicitly designed for combat, so did they set up shop and wait for years until some student decided he needed to lay waste to a rival school with a sword?
Source: An Economy Is You - We set up positions around the shield and started continuously plinking las fire into it, because when you have a fusion reactor to recharge your cells from you might as well lay down some indiscriminate suppressive fire.
Source: Fanfic / All Guardsmen Party
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