settle
verb (used with object)
to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
has been settling
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present perfect progressiveof settle (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The company has been settling its labor lawsuits.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2019
Her top priority has been settling in 11-year-old son Barron - the first boy in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. more than 50 years ago.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2017
The rest of the family has been settling in as well.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2016
The equally eccentric Chad Ochocinco, the wide receiver who signed with NFL side the New England Patriots last month, has been settling into his new home of Boston in his own inimitable fashion.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2011
How limpid seems the thought, how pure the old wine of scholarship that has been settling for so many generations in those silent crypts and Falernian amphorae of the Past!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various
