as in to don
to place on one's person
threw on a sweater and headed outside
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Sivan is not the only star to have worn the T-shirt, with the actor Pedro Pascal recently having donned the top while out celebrating his 50th birthday.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Apr. 2025 -
The girls don their coverings and start to screech and run through the forest.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
12 Apr. 2025
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His lawyers said Mahdi's original attorneys put on a shallow case trying to spare his life that didn't call on relatives, teachers or others who knew him and ignored the impact of months spent in solitary confinement in prison as a teen.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Apr. 2025
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Two of them, sitting in a cluttered apartment in Greenwich Village, decided to put on two benefit concerts to help these children out.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
12 Apr. 2025
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Trump fired Krebs in November 2020 when the then-CISA chief disputed Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged against him.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
17 Apr. 2025
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Market manipulation, on the other hand, is when someone artificially affects supply and demand by rigging prices or spreading false information.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Throw (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throw%20%28on%29. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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