situating

present participle of situate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of situating Dodge’s installation is ephemeral and finely tuned—light like a fog, yet adding gravity to the room, situating the viewer within it. — Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for situating
Verb
  • The measure speeds permitting approval under the California Environmental Quality Act by placing deadlines on government agencies to issue or deny permits within a year.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Jackson took over the Democratic nomination in late July, after placing third in the Democratic primary for governor.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Matthieu Blazy did the same thing in reverse at Chanel, putting a pink lace shirt under a great slouchy tweed coat.
    — Laurence Goldberg, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Yoko said her daughter simply tried to prevent an agitated resident from biting others by putting her hand around the person’s chin.
    — Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Variable-frequency drives regulate lifting, rotation, and jib movement, enabling smoother starts and stops and finer adjustments when positioning heavy components.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Will Rasmussen remain dominant and keep positioning the Rays to get a win tonight?
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • These systems are optimized for combat-ready maritime patrol in detecting, locating and tracking surface and undersea targets.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Only a fraction meet the conditions necessary for exploitation, but given the ease and speed of testing each one, locating vulnerable devices won’t require much effort or time.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026

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

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