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emplaces

verb

present tense third-person singular of emplace
as in places
to arrange something in a certain spot or position the plan is to emplace more guns on the ridge north of the camp

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emplaces
  1. places
  2. situates
  3. puts
  4. positions
  5. deposits
  6. sets up
  7. locates
Verb
  • His face pings your memory—and your memory places him at the crime scene.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The coaster reaches a top speed of 72 mph, the fastest coaster in Universal’s global portfolio, and places riders in authentic, mini-re-creations of real cars that can rotate 360 degrees to create the drifting sensation of a stunt vehicle.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of places
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  • The murkiness of it all clarifies by the end of the film, not just in terms of its heroes, villains and message, but Greengrass also situates this story within a recognizable cinematic and storytelling history.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • This situates it alongside the North Atlantic ocean that's populated with a variety of different kinds of whales.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of situates
Verb
  • Having receiver Cam Coleman opposite Ryan Wingo puts opposing secondaries between a rock and a hard place, because double-teaming one can result in the other going off.
    — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • That puts the network front and center, and it must be engineered as a first-class part of the architecture, rather than ordered last.
    — Ido Susan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of puts
Verb
  • Coinbase’s whitepaper frames legacy systems as burdened by chargeback risk and positions instant finality as the cure.
    — Tomer Warschauer Nuni, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The movie explicitly positions this adaptation as expanding the source material’s examination of gender and class to include race.
    — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of positions
Verb
  • The institution deposits the money and uses it to help pay for scholarships, travel, facilities, salaries and sports that might produce little revenue of their own.
    — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The manufacturing technology deposits continuous reinforcement during 3D printing.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of deposits
Verb
  • The episode sets up Hal and John’s budding mentor-mentee dynamic in a 2016 timeline, with Hal being a reluctant teacher.
    — Matt Minton, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Much of the first episode sets up the mystery that the Green Lantern and his protege are aiming to solve before ending with a twist.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of sets up
Verb
  • Qualley locates defensive purpose in Maya’s stiff reserve, and an errant gleam of joy when Charlie’s dorky come-ons actually do the job.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
  • If most people tend to think of the art as the visual or sonic manifestation one encounters, Protocol Art locates the art not in its manifestations but in the work that generates them.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of locates
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“Emplaces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emplaces. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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