settle
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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
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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
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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
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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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