situates

verb

present tense third-person singular of situate
as in puts
to arrange something in a certain spot or position the new industrial complex is situated near the highway

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Recent Examples of situates This makes your role clear and situates it in the context of goals everyone cares about. — Melody Wilding, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026 The murkiness of it all clarifies by the end of the film, not just in terms of its heroes, villains and message, but Greengrass also situates this story within a recognizable cinematic and storytelling history. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026 This situates it alongside the North Atlantic ocean that's populated with a variety of different kinds of whales. — New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2026 Without diminishing that aspect of music, Musical Bodies rightly situates as much meaning in the objects themselves. — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for situates
  1. puts
  2. locates
  3. places
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  • In August, after Piker implied that Jews' support for Israel puts them at risk of personal violence, El-Sayed sought to distance himself from the controversy, saying Piker did not speak for the campaign.
    — Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Mushrooms are an underrated ingredient in Indian cooking, and this creamy masala puts the earthy veg front and center.
    — Rachel Gurjar, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of puts
Verb
  • Serhiy, like Zabuzhko, locates his captor’s impulse to torture him in the very pages written by the Russian novelist.
    — Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The Greeks offer another kind of striving, one that locates pleasure in the pursuit itself rather than in the prize.
    — Stacy Keltner, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of locates
Verb
  • The consolidation places the department’s existing technology enforcement efforts under one structure.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Holding the tablet in portrait orientation now places you off-center in the frame, while holding it in landscape mode to FaceTime on the go quickly became uncomfortable.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of places

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“Situates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/situates. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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