situates

present tense third-person singular of situate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of situates 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 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
  • Quote of note Veteran center Garrett Bradbury has enjoyed his introduction to Ben Johnson’s offense, a system that puts a lot of responsibility on the guy snapping the ball.
    Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
  • As Stevie Wonder’s eponymous 1972 hit suggests, there’s something specifically ominous about a 13-month-old baby that puts it in league with the bad juju of falling ladders and broken looking glasses.
    Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The medical model locates disability inside the individual, a deficit to be cured, corrected or endured until the person can function in a world built without them.
    Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Anyone who locates turtles has been asked to bring them to the Cranford Fire Department, according to CBS New York.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That spread is divided into three buckets, which includes an underwriting fee for taking on the inventory risk, a management fee for structuring and timing the deal, and a selling concession for the sales desk that actually places the stock.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The religion places a particularly strong emphasis on creative pursuits and thus offerings often include written prayers, poetry, and song.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026

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“Situates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/situates. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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