situates

present tense third-person singular of situate

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Recent Examples of situates Sittenfeld deftly situates the problems of patriarchy and class politics within an intimate, decades-long love story—and what is more American than that potent mix? Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 1 July 2026 Celebrated artists such as Oscar Murillo, Selma Selman, and Hew Locke will be among the participants in next year’s edition of the show, which situates commissions around Münster. Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 30 June 2026 Christian Guy, Executive Director of The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, situates it inside something larger still. Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 The 83-year-old singer’s latest LP, Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife, situates him as comfortably as ever at the intersection of soul, country, and traditional worship music. Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 19 June 2026 Matthew Kriner, executive director of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism, said that the very creation of the video and document for public consumption strongly situates this attack within a specific subculture of far-right extremism. Odette Yousef, NPR, 27 May 2026 The disarmament thus takes place as an ecological project, one that situates AI within the broad sweep of human culture and that orients it towards human flourishing, not toward warfare, monopolistic power, or new inequalities. Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 25 May 2026 The installation situates Adams not simply as a participant in the Biennale ecosystem, but as an artist actively shaping its visual and ideological terrain. Andrew S. Jacobson, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2026 The Conservatory situates this story in forms of care—care for plants, for patients, for each other. Emilie Hardman, JSTOR Daily, 6 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for situates
Verb
  • This puts the big conflict of the episode into a different sort of relief.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 July 2026
  • Billie’s obsession with taking down Priscilla constantly puts her team in peril, because being so laser-focused on one thing clouds the bigger picture.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • Anyone who locates him should call 911 or notify the KCPD Missing Persons Section at 816-234-5043.
    Emily Harter, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
  • Māori mythology locates Karikari as the location where the first canoes landed in New Zealand.
    Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • Looking ahead, 74 percent of retail executives expect to deploy AI at scale within the next 12 months, which places the sector among the fastest across all industries to fully adopt the technology.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
  • Defender normally places hard limits on how big a file can be written to disk when scanning and quarantining a machine.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026

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“Situates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/situates. Accessed 17 Jul. 2026.

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