situating

present participle of situate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of situating The Sun is in Virgo until September 22, situating you in your annual season of renewal and personal vitality. Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2026 The report proposed situating it at the western end of the Mall, near the Potomac River. Jennifer Tucker, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026 The original Little House series quickly moved past the events of the eponymous book, in which the family briefly settles in Kansas, on tribal land known as the Osage Diminished Reserve, situating the Ingallses more permanently in Minnesota. Judy Berman, Time, 9 July 2026 That means tracking everything from shipping to unboxing to situating it in our bedrooms. Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2026 His students had collectively decided to set the play in eighteen-nineties Butte, making the court of Duke Frederick the house of a silver-mining magnate and situating the Forest of Arden in the Absarokas. Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 It is known that walls absorb the day’s heat and radiate it to adjacent plants at night, an important microclimate consideration when situating frost-sensitive plants. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 May 2026 Much of the film’s success, however, derives not from the twists and turns of plot but from simply situating the viewer in the disquieting vibe of this bizarre place. David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026 Richardson does a good job of situating the fledgling Rolling Stone on the cultural landscape of San Francisco that bracketed the Summer of Love (1967, the year the magazine launched). James Sullivan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for situating
Verb
  • The usual way to study cosmic rainstorms is by placing hundreds of specialized cameras across several miles of land.
    Jesse Liu, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Little things like people purposefully placing spelling mistakes in LinkedIn posts to signal to an audience that this post was crafted by a human, rather than a machine.
    Lis Anderson, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Ultimately, Jenkins capped the drive with a 4-yard keeper, putting UCF ahead 34-27 with 33 seconds remaining in the third quarter.
    Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The incident Sunday involved the top fashion executive forcibly restraining two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and putting his hands over their mouths at the runway show for Cos, a brand owned by H&M.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Joshua Van is aggressive and should be positioning himself as a striker in this match.
    OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The company is positioning the material for uses spanning fashion and footwear, furniture and interiors, construction and automotive applications.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Detectives arrested and located another suspect in the shooting, Antoine Jones, a little over a week after the shooting, but asked for help identifying and locating another gunman.
    Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Deputies have identified a man found dead in a grass swale last month and are asking for the public’s help in locating the driver who hit him, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
    Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026

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“Situating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/situating. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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