setting
Example Sentences
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“They’re places of sanctuary that are built in cities, where you can walk around in a more pastoral setting,” says David Monod, retired professor of American cultural history at Wilfrid Laurier University.
The Amazon founder has long extolled the benefits of a lunar base, including setting up factories there.
If the stakes weren’t so high, it would have been almost comical to see an adult behave so childishly in such a formal setting.
From Salon
However, she made her peace with having a setting that wasn't as physically similar to Kabul.
From Barron's
While many people report breakthrough ideas emerging from dreams, researchers have struggled to test this phenomenon because dreams are difficult to control in a lab setting.
From Science Daily
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