Etymology
Origin of settling
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; settle 1, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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“We believe that’s different than having a market directly settling on someone’s death,” he wrote on X.
They are all now settling into a foster home.
From BBC
It was only during the pandemic he opted to join his siblings by returning to the Scottish Borders, with him eventually settling in Selkirk.
From BBC
He wanted to know if he should join the masses of pioneers settling the “wilds of the West” in Michigan.
From Literature
The film exhibits no sense of how to stage a surprise, settling instead for hackish tricks like having a character nonsensically appear in, say, the middle of a deserted street as though arriving via drone.
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