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place setting

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as in setting

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Recent Examples of place setting The dining tables were set with red roses, a perfect prop for a photo shoot, as Becky G discovered, as well as deep red candles and a poem by Chavarria himself at each place setting. — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 16 Feb. 2026 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 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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These attributes will be increasingly important when robots are deployed to rescue sites and even used in less dangerous settings like hospitality and in multilevel offices, factories and houses.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2026
All four configurations use Bofors 3P programmable ammunition, which lets crews select the projectile’s fuze settings immediately before firing.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026

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Some owners experienced cracks along the inner screen near the hinge within hours or days of purchase, sometimes during initial setup.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
That setup also helps keep weight in check, with the entire hypercar weighing barely 2,866 lb (1,300 kg).

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2026

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The design riffs on botonaduras, the rows of decorative sterling silver buttons that often adorn charro trousers and skirts at Mexican rodeos.

— Zoey Goto, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2026
Her library hosted a bright pink sofa and matching rug alongside an orange armchair, while the living room held kitschy dog statues, seats the color of lemon drops, and ornate silver candlesticks.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 29 Oct. 2026

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