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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Example Sentences

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But just as you settle in, you're jolted back to reality.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Deciding to rent first allows you to settle in slowly, let the early enthusiasm pass and put yourself in a position to make clearheaded decisions.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026

Investors may be waiting longer than that for the dust to settle in software, though.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

The European Jews who settled in America in the 19th and 20th centuries largely made their way in commerce and trade and tended to settle in cities.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

A band of Homo sapiens gathering mushrooms and nuts and hunting deer and rabbit did not all of a sudden settle in a permanent village, ploughing fields, sowing wheat and carrying water from the river.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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