- present participle of set.
setting
Example Sentences
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Setting and forgetting your student-loan payments could soon give you a big discount.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026
Setting the rules is critical for federal legislation, with many things on the table, from the technicalities of how scholarship organizations operate to whether states can impose regulations more restrictive than the federal law.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Setting aside the conspiratorial premise, the “many” in Pratt’s assertion is doing a ton of work.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
Setting out the crown's case, Madam Justice McBride said about 21:40 BST on 9 May, a friend of Ms Parton's left her home and, at that point, she was uninjured.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Setting music in stone, as it were, so that it stayed the same for each performance, year in and year out, would have struck them as a contradiction of music’s function and enjoyment.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing setting
PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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