settling
Example Sentences
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In the 1970s and 1980s, tracking the market with low-cost index funds instead of hiring an expensive stock picker was “settling for average.”
The 21-year-old from Virginia, the son of figure skaters from Uzbekistan who competed at the Olympics before settling in the United States, leads Japanese skater Yuma Kagiyama by a comfortable 5.09-point margin.
From Barron's
My father’s missing $686 tax refund is now the only thing preventing me from settling his estate.
The person then looks around the patio and yard area apparently for something to obstruct the camera and eventually settling on some greenery found in the yard.
From Los Angeles Times
“We heard something on the wind about a storm headed your way, and we were all settling in and hoping you were okay, too. That’s all.”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
