settle in

British

verb

(adverb) to become or help to become adapted to and at ease in a new home, environment, etc

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Settle in for some amusing dissections of popular docuseries like “Making a Murderer” and “The Jinx,” as well as the simultaneously moralizing and exploitative “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Settle in — there’s a lot of ink to spill.

From The Verge • Aug. 10, 2022

Mathis nevertheless gives the Commanders interior defensive line depth after losing Tim Settle in free agency and cutting Matt Ioannidis in a salary cap-saving move.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2022

Settle in with some music and your phone nearby in case you get log-in codes over text and get in a password-changing groove.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2021

Caves at Settle, Yorkshire.—Being engaged on antiquarian investigations, I have found it necessary to refer to some discoveries made in the caves at Settle in Yorkshire, of which my friends in that county have spoken.

From Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

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