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vb. (en-third-person singularset aside)
Usage examples of "sets aside".
He sets aside (for example) a box labeled HARVARD-WATERHOUSE PRIME FACTOR CHALLENGE '49-52 to reveal a stack of bricks, neatly wrapped in paper that has gone gold with age, each consisting of a short stack of ETC cards, and each labeled ARETHUSA INTERCEPTS with a date from 1944 or '45.
While the clapping fades, he sets aside his guitar and rummages in his pack for a moment before retrieving a package-almost a half a cubit on a side-that he carries toward the high table and the new Marshall.
He sets aside the first scroll and breaks the green seal on the second.
As he sets aside the tongs, Dorrin looks at the stack of thin iron plates.
The Matriarch sets aside the scroll she has been reading and rubs her forehead.
Beforehand, however, the butcher, according to law, sets aside the portion for the hospitals, for pregnant women and others who are confined, for nurses, and besides, notwithstanding the law, he sets aside another portion for the revolutionary committee of the section, for the assistant commissioner and superintendent, for the pashas and semi pashas of the quarter, and finally for his rich customers who pay him extra.
He opens his case, quickly sets aside the rolls of bills (these he will carry home in his Mark Gross briefcase), then fills four bags with coins.