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Free sign upThe phrase "able to settle in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to adapt or become comfortable in a new environment or situation.
Example: "After moving to a new city, it took me a few weeks to feel able to settle in and make new friends."
Alternatives: "capable of adjusting" or "able to acclimate".
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The prime minister declared no one arriving by boat without a visa would end up being able to settle in Australia.
What the three have in common is their aloneness, and the solace that later that evening they will be able to settle in with Scully, a radio and the Dodgers game, and feel connected again.
Selling the development rights to seven of them would have kept the horse farm operating and still left three lots for their three children, who Mr. Miller said would probably not be able to settle in the town otherwise.
But Voltaire was still a rich man (like Thales, he had made his money through cunning investment rather than from any literary ability; literary popularity in the 18th century was no guarantee of wealth, as anyone could bring out an unauthorised copy of your work), and was able to settle in some style at Ferney, near Geneva.
3/ Then read this perceptive piece by David Thomson from 2009 in which he says Seymour Hoffman had stopped testing himself and that: There is something uneasy in him (it seems to me), as if he has not been able to settle in his own mind the question of whether he is meant to be a spectacular, ever-changing support, or a real actor who can take over the emotional centre of a movie and dominate it.
So when I finally did get out of research, I assumed that I would be able to settle in for awhile.
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Immediately after arriving at Leonard Wood, which had the bleak, austere look of all Army camps, the train took off on its return trip and Frimbo was able to settle into a dormitory car, in which he slept straight through to St . Louis
Across the way, in Chefs on Trial, Alex Polizzi was finally able to settle into a decent hotel.
Most everyone seems to settle in easily.
An uncle living in Maryland said the suspects were "losers" who were not "able to settle themselves" in the United States.
American courts say it does (and Perpetual has settled out of court); British ones say it doesn't.A tribunal, even if it were set up tomorrow, would not be able to settle differences in British and American law.
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