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View synonyms for put across

put across

verb

  1. adverb to communicate in a comprehensible way

    he couldn't put things across very well

  2. put one across informal.
    to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception

    they put one across their teacher

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“We’re going to continue to see warehouses being put across the street from homes and schools, because it will be OK with the law.”

However, the technology then needs to be able to adapt this to put across the required tone or volume, to put words together in a natural-sounding way.

From BBC

Mulaney has such a chipper affect that he can put across grim material without weighing the show down, a superpower these days when ambitious comics are often expected to do more than tell jokes.

Some of Basgallop’s ideas pay dividends — Regus’s tone-deaf commitment to keeping his bargain with the CompWare founder has droll results — and there’s pleasure in the arch, offhand way Waltz puts across his character’s old-world weirdness.

As the noble prince Tamino, Ben Bliss added a little schmaltz to his elegant tenor to put across the romance of his first aria for the young crowd.

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