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settlement

[set-l-muhnt] / ˈsɛt l mənt /




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Mirer, meanwhile, claims that he has received no NIL compensation from Stanford’s collective or revenue-sharing money from the university since 2024 as a result of the settlement.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Polymarket moved offshore and outside the strictures of U.S. regulations after a 2022 settlement with the CFTC.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Israeli media reported that damage was caused to four buildings in an outpost near the Israeli settlement of Itamar, in the north of the occupied West Bank, as a result of a missile interception.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

American settlement hugged natural ports and navigable rivers.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Although the reservation’s capital then seemed a small, squalid place—a “muddy little trading post,” as one visitor described it—it was likely the biggest settlement Mollie had ever seen.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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