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Complete something and either set it aside or send it on to the next step, as in We put the magazine to bed at ten , or They said they'd put the whole project to bed at least a month ago . This expression, transferring nighttime retirement to other kinds of completion, was first applied to a newspaper, where it meant “send to press,” that is, start to print. [Mid-1900s]

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Any doubts it would not sell out the 62,000-capacity Tottenham Hotspur Stadium were quickly put to bed during the first media blitz.

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The children had just been put to bed upstairs.

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He will keep going back to that well — which means economic tumult, more stock market crashes, and more panicked constituents — unless this tariff nonsense is put to bed entirely.

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He only gets one chance to ask for help, and his pleas come out so haltingly that it’s easy to see how someone might just think that Grandpa needs to be put to bed.

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“That risk is now put to bed,” Moffett wrote.

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