settling (on or upon)

verb

Definition of settling (on or upon)next
present participle of settle (on or upon)
as in figuring
to come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration the car buyer settled on that brand only after a lot of research

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settling (on or upon)
  1. figuring
  2. choosing
  3. deciding
  4. opting
  5. determining
  6. resolving
  7. finding
Verb
  • Everybody — from first-year coaches to 24th-year players — will be figuring things out.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
  • First, the law takes its time in responding to new technologies, figuring that new tools can be accommodated within existing ideas, rules, and doctrines.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of figuring
Verb
  • More people are employed in the state than ever before, and more families are choosing to call Arkansas home.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Looking back, leaving the United States was about choosing to pursue a different definition of success.
    — Alicia Sanchez, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of choosing
Verb
  • Release can begin with simply deciding not to keep feeding the same pattern.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Below, Forbes Coaches Council members share their advice for evaluating tough user feedback and deciding what to preserve, discard or rebuild.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of deciding
Verb
  • The pop stars had a matching moment with their bags, with both opting for the Loewe Small Paseo bag in shiny napa calfskin.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Less than a year after her son’s birth, Dowling tried to get pregnant again, opting for the same add-ons as before—with no luck.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of opting
Verb
  • Proponents of the move argued that a high school GPA is a better factor in determining readiness than standardized testing that favors students with wealthy parents who can afford private tutors and test prep classes.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
  • But the main challenge in determining how far the film can go on Oscar nominations morning is still Cruise.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of determining
Verb
  • Lee found a way of resolving this line of questioning through the realization that any spatial perception occurs in the eye and mind of a beholder.
    — Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Or, consider an AI agent capable of resolving customer issues.
    — Jayasri Ranganathan, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of resolving
Verb
  • Two days later, investigators searched his hotel room and reported finding nearly 700 grams of cocaine, more than 70 grams of fentanyl, drug packaging materials and $13,867, according to authorities.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
  • In January, its investigators reported finding more than 100 hallucinated citations in papers accepted at NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI research conferences, as Fortune first reported.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of finding
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“Settling (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settling%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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