situates

present tense third-person singular of situate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of situates Garvey said the journal, which published quarterly from 1993 to 2005, was premised on the idea of abolishing whiteness as a social category that situates white people above other racial groups. Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 30 July 2026 And Anne Hathaway, in a bravura performance, situates Penelope on an emotional precipice, caught between indecision and indignation, between yearning for her husband and a palpable disgust with the alternatives. Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for situates
Verb
  • Advocates and city councilors said at an April Council hearing that the Wu administration’s inaction has cost the city millions in federal grant funding and puts cyclists and pedestrians at risk.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 22 July 2026
  • That puts additional weight on the value of the face-to-face interview — one of the last remaining stages of the hiring process that can’t be automated.
    Cami Fateh, Vogue, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • Tamas locates its tragedy not only in violence and displacement but also in the speed with which neighbors become enemies while those who engineer communal hatred remain insulated from the suffering that follows.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
  • The female locates and stings a large insect such as a cicada or katydid and then brings it back to the burrow.
    Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026
Verb
  • Candidates running for the 5th District will have to represent a broad swath of urban, suburban and rural voters, including eastern Kansas City and places hours away such as Jefferson City, the state’s capital city.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
  • Lester places a premium on explosive plays, which often require long throws to the field and one-on-one deep shots.
    Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 24 July 2026

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“Situates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/situates. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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