as in begins
to come into existence
a cold spell set in sometime last week
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Recent Examples of sets in
Where To Find Saturn In The Night Sky During its opposition, Saturn rises in the east at sunset, stays in the southern sky all night and sets in the west at sunrise.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sets in
Verb
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The show is a campy, 1980s-style whodunit that begins with the funeral of a famous singer.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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The season finale episode begins with Part 1 of the HOH competition.—
Christopher Kuhagen,
jsonline.com,
28 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This all starts when Adriana shows up at her mortal enemy, Marysol’s, house because Marysol is hosting a gifting suite that also doubles as a holiday party.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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Halloween shopping starts early and 45 percent of these adults who dress up start purchasing costumes in September, and 36 percent shop during the first two weeks of October, according to HCA’s survey.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The video appears to show agents communicating with Mejia through or near the doorway of his house.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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Costs of inputs, like fertilizer, are steep; drought appears likely to hurt yields again this year; and high interest rates have made borrowing more burdensome.—
Connor Giffin,
Louisville Courier Journal,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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If there is a shutdown, federal workers will not be paid, and federal buildings will close as Congress works to pass a deal to reopen the shuttered government.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Sep. 2025
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There is a specific subcategory of magic romance books deal gently with death, that thing that is as much a part of love and life as any amount of comedy, tropes and beats.—
Audrey Goldberg Ruoff,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The sticker originates from a Williams fan, who got her question answered by the drivers in a video on Instagram.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
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That’s where the film originates — from that intergenerational dialogue between our generation and the generation of women born in the 1960s.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The problem arises when these signals are ignored.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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The question arises not just because Oracle recently announced that two executives are the company’s new CEOs, succeeding Safra Catz, who had been CEO or co-CEO for the past 11 years.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Of course, things will continue to change as non-conference play mostly wraps up and the conference slate commences in earnest in the next couple of weeks.—
Tom Layberger,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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There’s now just one last day of preseason games before the NFL commences its regular season.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
23 Aug. 2025
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“Sets in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sets%20in. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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