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put sth into sth/doing sth
— Phrasal Verb with put /pʊt/ verb [T] (present participle putting, past tense and past participle put)Definition
› If you put time, work, or effort into something, you spend a lot of time or effort doing it: We've put a lot of effort into this project and we want it to succeed.
(Definition of put sth into sth/doing sth from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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