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set

[set] / sɛt /




NOUN
stage setting
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And yet, even among that very small set, there are still biases.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

He says that a company email account was set up for Ferguson, but because she never activated it, messages addressed to her were forwarded to a common inbox.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

The union had called for the scrapping of a bonus cap set at 50 percent of annual salaries and for 15 percent of operating profit to be allocated to bonuses.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

By being zero-calorie without using the word “diet,” Coke Zero has also courted a different set of consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

I set my phone down on the bench beside me and pull the plate closer.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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