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settles
verb
Third person singular of settle
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In the auditorium at the far side of the park, in a high-ceilinged room with wooden floors and long black curtains, a small audience settles in to listen to a series of international musicians taking part in an experimental gig.
When the dust settles at the start of 2017, Toronto will be one more mixed-use residential-retail complex richer.
She locks the doors of the small family home as Chibok settles for the night.
As the dust settles on Labour's defeat, we must do better in understanding the causes.
So, as the dust settles, on the result it's time to confront things which, in retrospect, we should have done years ago.
When mentioning my home turf, I have got used to the look of puzzlement that settles on the faces of cosmopolitan journalists or government folk, more familiar with the souks of Marrakech than this unglamorous patch of north London.
Once the dust settles on the immediate analysis of the measures he announced on Tuesday, Osborne will probably be more than satisfied if his, and the Tories', ratings stay unchanged – leaving him and his party with the election campaign to try to open up a decisive lead.
This is brilliantly demonstrated when she takes a bath and slowly settles under the dark water and envisions herself drowning (I was shocked to see so much breast on network television).
When the dust settles on the sustainable development goals, and the world knows exactly what targets will determine climate and development policy for the next 15 years, the hard work of actually implementing them will be left to individual governments.
But unless Oriel Riera settles immediately, they might require a prolific forward if they are to improve on the play-offs.
As the dust settles after Nigeria's history-making election, the focus has shifted to the road ahead for president-elect Muhammadu Buhari.
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