as in settled
to cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid)
the water flowing into the reservoir is sedimenting silt faster than was originally expected
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But friends who settled in America urged them to move across the Atlantic, where the training facilities were better and the opportunity for ice time aplenty.—
Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
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And Akrivos told me that in the late nineteenth century, pockets of socialist German immigrants settled in the area.—
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Yellow-filtered to the max, the film looks veritably marinated in Hawaiian Tropic.—
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Vogue is committed to reporting and riffing on the global fashion conversation—always filtered through the lens of culture and what’s happening in the world at large.—
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“Sedimented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sedimented. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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