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as in environments
the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded
the novice camper felt lost outside of his familiar urban setting
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as in scenes
the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set
the setting for the novel is Victorian England
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Recent Examples of settings
Examine the weight, stone settings, clasps, and overall condition.
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Micaela English,
Travel + Leisure,
3 July 2026
If a state starts to provide services in institutional settings, legal challenges probably would follow, the department said.
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Annie Ma,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
Let the style of your home guide your decision—choose warm tones for rustic or eclectic spaces, and cooler ones for sleek, contemporary settings.
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Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 July 2026
Beyond industrial settings, the researchers believe the technology could also enhance virtual reality and gaming.
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Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 July 2026
Classical biofeedback originated in clinical and research settings during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
Hospitality, tourism, and other commercial settings, sure, but companionship and elder care, too.
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Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
The burden should be on companies to prove that a user is an adult before unlocking higher-risk features, not on parents to find every account or on teenagers to choose the safest settings.
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Ryan McBain,
STAT,
2 July 2026
Organized recreational league participation, volunteering, neighborhood meeting attendance – all these settings to interact with other community members are on the decline.
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Deborah Mower,
The Conversation,
2 July 2026
Micaela English,
Travel + Leisure,
3 July 2026
If a state starts to provide services in institutional settings, legal challenges probably would follow, the department said.
—
Annie Ma,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
Let the style of your home guide your decision—choose warm tones for rustic or eclectic spaces, and cooler ones for sleek, contemporary settings.
—
Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 July 2026
Beyond industrial settings, the researchers believe the technology could also enhance virtual reality and gaming.
—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 July 2026
Classical biofeedback originated in clinical and research settings during the 1960s and 1970s.
—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
Hospitality, tourism, and other commercial settings, sure, but companionship and elder care, too.
—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
The burden should be on companies to prove that a user is an adult before unlocking higher-risk features, not on parents to find every account or on teenagers to choose the safest settings.
—
Ryan McBain,
STAT,
2 July 2026
Organized recreational league participation, volunteering, neighborhood meeting attendance – all these settings to interact with other community members are on the decline.
—
Deborah Mower,
The Conversation,
2 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for settings
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White settlers and frontier pioneers built vast, fenceless cattle stations, battling harsh environments and disease, embracing a hard-living culture that exists to this day.
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To ensure safety during outdoor work, adhere to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)'s recommendations by incorporating regular rest breaks in shaded or air-conditioned environments.
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Rodríguez described scenes of children hospitalized with amputations and survivors grieving multiple family deaths.
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Claudia Wells plays Marty McFly's girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, who appears in scenes that bookend the original Back to the Future.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been probing for atmospheres around other rocky worlds orbiting red dwarfs, such as those in the TRAPPIST-1 system.
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Ciba lets the competing atmospheres remain in tension.
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The grievances were part of that – challenges that ordinary men and women of all backgrounds had faced.
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After all, innovation can be found across the country and tapped by those with all kinds of backgrounds—not just those rooted in Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
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Commissioned from DeART of Italy, they are housed in cabinets in a muted version of British Racing Green, in harmony with the wooden look and feel of their surrounds.
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In the sanitized and alienating new surrounds, with the camaraderie of the early Hyperion days but a faint memory, long-simmering discontent about working conditions wouldn’t take long to boil over.
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Meanwhile, Oregon and Washington state shared an empty pavilion, with nothing but backdrops that showed beavers and the ocean or Amazon packages and the ocean, respectively.
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For those of us who live in Australia, there was a surreal quality to witnessing the frenzied panic of a mass shooting unfold against one of the country’s most iconic backdrops.
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Bonus pools are the easiest reward mechanism to implement and work particularly well in nonprofit contexts where there is no stock ownership.
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In such contexts, large-scale air conditioning would place a massive strain on existing infrastructure.
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To learn more about the real-life locations used in the series, Boudreaux walks us through the Lone Star locales used to tell this South Texan story.
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The calming locales both complement and contradict the plot’s revelations, which are hardly bombshells but do speak to how well-to-do families labor to shove inconvenient skeletons into the closet.
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“Settings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settings. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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