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[Jonathan Lighter]

'To place (in a certain literary setting).'  Not in MW

2009 James Ellroy,
https://www.npr.org/2009/11/23/112212197/damned-from-here-to-eternity  :
More than that, he gave us men and women of the time and place, and couched
them at the outset of America's most perilous moment and ultimate ascent.

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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