as in agreements
an arrangement about action to be taken
eventually reached a peace settlement
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Recent Examples of settlements
Israel also built settlements in the Sinai, Golan and the Gaza Strip.
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Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Some hardliners in Netanyahu’s governing coalition have called for the reestablishment of Jewish settlements.
—Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Gaza withdrawal Then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon led a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, uprooting all troops and 21 settlements from the territory.
—Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
As of the group’s November meeting, the state had already received more than $158 million in funds paid by pharmacies and manufacturers of opioids in litigation settlements.
—Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
Though there’s an appetite to use the state’s opioid trust funds established through national settlements, movement has been slow.
—Christina Lengyel | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
The region has been the subject of continuous fighting by both sides as after Ukrainian troops seized Kherson and other nearby regional settlements in November 2022, Russian forces were relegated to the river's east bank.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
In the year after his release, McCullough won more than $4 million in legal settlements with the state of Illinois, the town of Sycamore and others related to his wrongful conviction, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have made an astonishing discovery of settlements dating from the Neolithic period to the high Middle Ages.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2024
Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Some hardliners in Netanyahu’s governing coalition have called for the reestablishment of Jewish settlements.
—Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Gaza withdrawal Then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon led a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, uprooting all troops and 21 settlements from the territory.
—Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
As of the group’s November meeting, the state had already received more than $158 million in funds paid by pharmacies and manufacturers of opioids in litigation settlements.
—Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
Though there’s an appetite to use the state’s opioid trust funds established through national settlements, movement has been slow.
—Christina Lengyel | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
The region has been the subject of continuous fighting by both sides as after Ukrainian troops seized Kherson and other nearby regional settlements in November 2022, Russian forces were relegated to the river's east bank.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
In the year after his release, McCullough won more than $4 million in legal settlements with the state of Illinois, the town of Sycamore and others related to his wrongful conviction, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have made an astonishing discovery of settlements dating from the Neolithic period to the high Middle Ages.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Settlements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settlements. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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