place setting

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Recent Examples of place setting Then feathers started showing up in places where there were no birds or, at an outdoor dinner, landing on her place setting and no one else’s. Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026 Inside the venue, each place setting was adorned in part by one of the nearly 200 cake pops sized, measured and baked by organizing committee member Shaikh, who not only committed the week prior to bake for the ball, but also enjoyed developing a sisterhood with the rest of the organizers. Mariana Navarrete Villegas, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026 Hot chocolate candy cane sticks can be made days or weeks beforehand, and left at each place setting for a fun touch. Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2025 Add Spode Christmas bread and butter plates to each place setting. Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for place setting
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Noun
  • The setting would come in Week 1, after no preseason for their starters, rather than packed in the middle of the schedule and right before a bye week as the London game was.
    Nate Atkins, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Canine Companions trains facility dogs to work alongside professionals in settings including schools, hospitals and other environments serving vulnerable populations.
    Brian Maass, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • But given the variety of corners around the track, the technical question is how to nail car setup, due to the compromises needed across a lap.
    Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Its anchoring setup connects to the banks and reservoir bottom.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • For Household and Personal Items Silver Simply replace your silver cleaner with toothpaste to achieve the same result.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The new camera is designed to look like it was pulled directly from the 2000s (rather than the ’80s look of the original), with metallic silver and bubblegum pink options among the blind box shells.
    Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2026

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“Place setting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/place%20setting. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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