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
  • Earlier attempts to solve the problem have included adding surplus lithium or placing thick protective coatings on the electrode.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Uline, a box and packaging company based in Kenosha County, is taking over for Motorola placing its logo on every Bucks jersey in the 2026-27 season.
    — Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The administration has also fired federal workers, imposed a historic increase in tariffs, and started the war in Iran without going through Congress, putting the burden on the judicial branch to determine the limits of presidential power.
    — Kevin Freking, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Tom Vaillant of France, a two-time winner on the smaller Alps Tour but still looking for his first European tour title, shot 67 and was in second place, putting him in the final group with Fitzpatrick for the final round before a home crowd.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The brand has been positioning itself as an alternative to heritage, big-name jewelry houses and independent art jewelers.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The company is positioning the new supply as the starting point for its Defiant Future product family.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • If there was only sea, with water that never stands still, locating anything would be much more complicated—as mariners know full well.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The Dallas Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a 61-year-old man with autism, who's been missing for nearly two weeks.
    — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026

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“Situating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/situating. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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