Thesaurus results for SETTINGS

settings

noun

plural of setting

as in environments

the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded the novice camper felt lost outside of his familiar urban setting

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as in scenes

the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set the setting for the novel is Victorian England

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Recent Examples of settings The settings range from the Garden of Eden to his own kitchen, which is invoked twice in this album as a place where unpleasant things happen. — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 July 2026 Their partnership allows users to access ChatGPT results through Siri, while iPhone users can also sign up for ChatGPT memberships directly from the iOS settings menu. — Stephen Nellis, USA Today, 11 July 2026 Every year, more than 3 billion injections are administered outside traditional healthcare settings in the United States. — Irina Butler, Boston Herald, 10 July 2026 Specialists cannot optimize care pathways without understanding the cost implications of diagnostics, therapies and care settings. — Andrew Pecora, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 This equipment can also drift from its initial settings due to random factors, such as the hardware heating up as it’s used. — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026 If the indirect heat is too hot or cold, turn the burners to higher or lower heat settings as needed. — Wini Moranville, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2026 Notably, school district officials haven’t been vocal in asking for the money, at least in public settings. — John Marks, Charlotte Observer, 10 July 2026 Examine the weight, stone settings, clasps, and overall condition. — Micaela English, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026

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Noun

The goal is to provide a more accurate, stable, and practical data foundation for training embodied AI systems in real-world environments.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 11 July 2026
Sitting above data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI services, Dataiku connects the full enterprise AI stack — empowering organizations to run AI across multi-vendor environments with centralized governance.

— Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of environments

Noun

This will be especially tedious for people with dozens of lights and accessories, as well as many customized scenes and automations.

— Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
Inside the temple compound in Gurdaspur, the audience watched scenes of police killings, crackdowns and families searching for answers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026

Definition of scenes

Noun

And the question is whether the planets even have atmospheres, because M dwarfs are quite active.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 July 2026
The series already featured arguably the best atmospheric immersion in sports video games and the team has gone to great lengths to further sell us on college football atmospheres.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026

Definition of atmospheres

Noun

The establishment of the new company combines the distinct organizational backgrounds of both parent entities.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026
The previous game’s all-star cast returned, but now Mark Hamill, Tom Wilson, Malcolm McDowell, and the rest were performing not on videotape in front of digital backgrounds but on 35mm film stock and enormous real sets—lots of enormous real sets.

— Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026

Definition of backgrounds

Noun

The debut Elora neatly brings together a white RV box and a white chassis, offsetting all that brightness with numerous windows enclosed by black surrounds matching the Promaster front bumper.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 July 2026
Quince, San Francisco Chef Michael Tusk has combined his love of Northern Italian cuisine with his surrounds in Northern California to evolve classics like tortellini into modern American fare.

— Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 26 June 2026

Definition of surrounds

Noun

Balloon walls, rose backdrops, giant waffle wings — pretty much every corner is a photo station.

— Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 10 July 2026
Meanwhile, Oregon and Washington state shared an empty pavilion, with nothing but backdrops that showed beavers and the ocean or Amazon packages and the ocean, respectively.

— Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 30 June 2026

Definition of backdrops

Noun

Indeed, the folks in Akron, Amherst and Monroe, among other locales, have long awaited the winds of change, which have avoided blowing out the stale air caused by chronic losing.

— Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
To learn more about the real-life locations used in the series, Boudreaux walks us through the Lone Star locales used to tell this South Texan story.

— Alex Jhamb Burns, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 July 2026