situating

present participle of situate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of situating Orienting and situating new guests has been honed to a fine art, and the activities and general levels of service are well-supervised and helpful. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 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 The Houthis are the latest group backed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to join the conflict, situating themselves alongside Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon. Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for situating
Verb
  • With Dolphin expected to affect part of Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu, residents whose houses were damaged by last week’s deadly earthquake were placing blue tarps on roofs and walls to prevent water damage.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Either thaw them at room temperature or reheat them by wrapping frozen muffins or loaves in foil and placing them in a 300ºF oven for 12 to 15 minutes (muffins) or up to 30 minutes (loaves) until heated through.
    Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Blanchard says putting guardsmen in those relatively safe areas allows local police to concentrate more officers in parts of the city where crime is higher.
    Steven Beynon, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • That lets Nvidia expand its customers' buying power without putting every project on its own balance sheet.
    Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Shields appears to be positioning herself for more competitive fights against women in smaller weight classes.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Muse Glimmer fits with that strategy, positioning the AI model as a personal assistant that runs locally on computers rather than a tool accessed only through the cloud.
    Paulina Likos,Jeff Marks, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The pastime is gaining attention on TikTok and growing in popularity nationwide, driving more folks to discover the appeal (and challenge) of locating and identifying wild mushrooms.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Both the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office assisted in locating the investigator’s body, though no further information about the incident has been shared publicly, according to the outlet.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026

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“Situating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/situating. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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