'put the topic' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are introducing a topic that will be discussed in further detail. For example, "Let's put the topic of global warming on the table and discuss some of the steps we can take to reduce its impact."
Some of the fans even turned their ire on Patrice Evra, whose complaints about racial abuse earlier this season put the topic front and center in English soccer.
It is time to put the topic at the forefront of a national conversation to promote specialist services that many organisations are offerings.
Two more goals in the 3-1 win away to Augsburg have put the topic back to the top of the agenda.
After reading the Comments section, I thought we could put the topic to rest for a while, perhaps until devices powered by Intel's very low-power Quark processor start shipping.
It was expected to be on sometime in May or June, but ABC moved it up because Spitzer's resignation last week put the topic in the headlines, said David Sloan, executive producer of ABC's newsmagazines.
Beyoncé also put the topic front and centre before the US's biggest TV audience in February, when she performed her single Formation at the Super Bowl half-time show with dancers paying tribute to the Black Panthers.
As the Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire put it to journalist Sylvia Patterson: "Saturday morning kids' TV has been ruined by pious, pontificating, revolting chefs", putting the topic up there with unregulated banking and zero-hours contracts as things that are wrong with modern Britain.
Most discussions are for now behind closed doors, but some well-funded events like today's dubbed "Geoengineering: The Horrifying Idea Whose Time has Come?"--are putopic the tonicenterenter stage.
With the naïve optimism of youth, he put the two topics together, concluding that molecular genetics would provide both the techniques to understand why the body grows old and the mechanisms through which to extend life span.
Put the aromatherapy topics you learned into practice.
The fiery actor helped put the hotly debated topic into perspective on his web series, "The Trews," when he reminded viewers that while feeding the hungry is an unequivocal no-no in Fort Lauderdale, bringing a gun pretty much anywhere is just fine.
