as in placing
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 situating
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.
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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
The company has presented its work through exhibitions and design collaborations, situating itself at the intersection of marine innovation and material research rather than as a traditional textile mill.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 26 Feb. 2026
This ornament, situating them as something between a throw pillow and a hand muff, shrouds the thick-boned fore- and hindquarters that give them a characteristic rolling gait.
—Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
By the time of the 2004 Biennial, to which Violette contributed an ensemble of works situating the 1994 suicide of Kurt Cobain as an archetype of Romantic self-destruction, the neo-goth sensibility was prevalent enough to occasion a catalogue essay on the subject by cocurator Shamim Momin.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
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
The company has presented its work through exhibitions and design collaborations, situating itself at the intersection of marine innovation and material research rather than as a traditional textile mill.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 26 Feb. 2026
This ornament, situating them as something between a throw pillow and a hand muff, shrouds the thick-boned fore- and hindquarters that give them a characteristic rolling gait.
—Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
By the time of the 2004 Biennial, to which Violette contributed an ensemble of works situating the 1994 suicide of Kurt Cobain as an archetype of Romantic self-destruction, the neo-goth sensibility was prevalent enough to occasion a catalogue essay on the subject by cocurator Shamim Momin.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for situating
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Koné was in straight shock when the injury occurred, holding his leg at first and then placing his hands on his head.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2026
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Vaden removed a photograph of the two of them from his office, placing it on the desk of the subordinate with whom the lawsuit alleges Davis was involved.—
Camryn Dadey,
Sacbee.com,
19 June 2026
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Then there’s writing it, and then there’s putting it out.—
Holly Gleason,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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Despite her shooting woes, Clark still controlled the game by consistently putting teammates in position to score.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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Nadella is talking his own book — Microsoft has no frontier model of its own and, in the middle of a messy uncoupling from OpenAI, is positioning itself as the enabler of the learning loop rather than the model underneath.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
16 June 2026
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The Historyverse project will be produced through Galleri5, Collective Studios’s in-house AI storytelling studio, with the company positioning emerging technology as a complement to the source material’s narrative and philosophical core rather than a departure from it.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 June 2026
Verb
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New London police shared information about the vehicle to other area departments in the hopes of locating it, police said.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
13 June 2026
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Los Angeles Police Department detectives are seeking help locating a hit-and-run driver who killed a pedestrian in North Hollywood on Thursday.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
13 June 2026
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“Situating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/situating. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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