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settling

[set-ling, -l-ing] / ˈsɛt lɪŋ, -l ɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
compensating
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Bayer has spent more than $10 billion settling litigation linked to Roundup since it acquired its producer, the US agrochemical group Monsanto, in 2018.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

Guardiola tried several versions through the year before settling on one where the wingers pressed centre-backs while blocking passes wide, with Haaland and Cherki blocking the middle of the pitch.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

Rather than neatly settling the debate, the result showed that snake origins were likely complex, with different branches of the snake family tree preserving different clues about how body shape, habitat, and feeding style evolved.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

The group winds up settling on a new planet inhabited by two rival native factions, the Garkohn and the Tehkohn, and Alanna gets caught right in the middle of their conflict.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

They circled each other playfully before settling to the right among a cluster of smaller stars, forming a new constellation just below Ursa Major—woman and her two children, forever reunited in the sky.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall