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settle

[set-l] / ˈsɛt l /






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If Snap does not settle, the trial will go ahead next week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

“We are ready to settle up, but we have no clear answer about when that might happen.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mr. Specht writes that when the sons “tried to settle these long-standing debts, their tenants, struggling with exhausted soils and poorly paying crops, began to resist in earnest.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Once cameras inside the coolers show that sand above the eggs is beginning to settle — a sign that hatching has started — they’ll be kept in a dark location until evening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

He lit the torches and watched them flare up, then settle down to burn slowly.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

Front-month gold settles up 0.8% at $4,022.30 a troy ounce, and silver edges up 0.7% to $54.108 a troy ounce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The process is somewhat similar to the way fine household dust spreads and settles across many different surfaces rather than remaining in one location.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

City have appealed against the verdict, but until the dust settles and final decisions are made, this Premier League season is in a holding pattern.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Verity” is no different, allowing Johnson to move her character between suspicion and warmth with languid ease as she settles into Verity’s Vermont home to work.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

He looks for the word and settles on “...finish in Poland.”

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

The current settled spell marks quite a contrast to the turbulent conditions experienced just a week ago, when the UK was hit by its first named storms of the season, Austen and Bóelo.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

The 10-year yield settled at 4.928%, down 0.06 percentage point from the previous session.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The comments show there is no settled policy at the central bank when it comes to taking publicly about the economic outlook.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

After the midterm elections are settled, we may learn some answers.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

We settled into the very first row as the lights went out.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Bayer has spent more than $10 billion settling thousands of cases linked to glyphosate-based herbicides since it acquired the US agrichemical group Monsanto, developer of the popular Roundup weedkiller, in 2018.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Musk was born in South Africa and then immigrated to Canada before settling in the US.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The pair toured the house multiple times in 2014 before settling on an $88-million monolithic mansion in Bel-Air three years later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The decline followed a sharp rally last week, when Brent gained more than 6%, settling Friday at $116.72 a barrel, its highest closing level in nearly six months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

I would see the fauns arriving soundlessly, settling themselves in a graceful ring around the sycamore’s trunk.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish


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