as in agreements
an arrangement about action to be taken
eventually reached a peace settlement
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Recent Examples of settlements
Those lawsuits continued for decades, resolved in part with $12 million settlements both for prisoners and for the families of Attica prison-employees and hostages.
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Michael Collins, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Far-right members of Netanyahu’s ruling coalition – whose support is crucial to keeping his government afloat – have fiercely opposed a withdrawal from Gaza and have previously called for encouraging Palestinian residents to leave so Jewish settlements can be established there.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
These settlements require firms to allow independent monitors to oversee their recruiting and hiring practices.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Money from Medicaid settlements is highly regulated.
—Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Sky-high divorce settlements are becoming the norm in Abu Dhabi, less than five years after a civil court opened to serve non-Emirati residents, Semafor reported.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Kurt's key takeaways Class action settlements can feel like rare wins for consumers after data breaches.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
But to reach the Moon and Mars and establish settlements on both, SpaceX will need its larger, more complex and significantly more powerful Starship and its Super Heavy booster to reach Falcon 9’s level of reliability and reusability.
—Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025
Federal worker firings, court settlements, a government shutdown.
—Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
Michael Collins, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Far-right members of Netanyahu’s ruling coalition – whose support is crucial to keeping his government afloat – have fiercely opposed a withdrawal from Gaza and have previously called for encouraging Palestinian residents to leave so Jewish settlements can be established there.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
These settlements require firms to allow independent monitors to oversee their recruiting and hiring practices.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Money from Medicaid settlements is highly regulated.
—Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Sky-high divorce settlements are becoming the norm in Abu Dhabi, less than five years after a civil court opened to serve non-Emirati residents, Semafor reported.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Kurt's key takeaways Class action settlements can feel like rare wins for consumers after data breaches.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
But to reach the Moon and Mars and establish settlements on both, SpaceX will need its larger, more complex and significantly more powerful Starship and its Super Heavy booster to reach Falcon 9’s level of reliability and reusability.
—Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025
Federal worker firings, court settlements, a government shutdown.
—Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for settlements
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Historically, federal and state agencies have worked to broker agreements with landowners whose properties border public lands to ensure public access, but those processes can take years.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
13 Oct. 2025
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Footage and images released by the Chilean Navy on the social-media platform X in recent days show Iquique's maritime authority inspecting foreign fishing vessels off the city to verify their compliance with legal regulations and international agreements.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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In the show, which Lincoln Hiatt and Andrew Golder created, contestants are confined to isolation pods with no sense of day or night, no human contact and no alliances – somewhat against the grain of the current spate of guessing game formats that require contestants to form pacts.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
12 Oct. 2025
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Over the course of the 21st century, several mutual defense pacts that looked ironclad on paper have collapsed under fire.—
Omar Al-Ubaydli,
semafor.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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While the filmmaking itself is not atmospheric or distinctive enough to help, a core problem is that Stuckmann’s script (from a story conceived with wife Samantha Elizabeth) comes off as a checklist of horror conventions rather than something that’s building its own original mythology.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
13 Oct. 2025
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The gay rodeo movement pushed back at the conventions that pressured them to leave their communities and leaned into traditions from which they might otherwise be excluded.—
Sarah Henry,
Louisville Courier Journal,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Settlements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settlements. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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