setting
noun
the act of a person or thing that sets.
settings
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pluralof setting.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The EU wants children's accounts to remain private, with "risky settings" disabled by default and unknown users prevented from contacting minors.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Meta said people can change their settings or disconnect from the agent at any time and can opt out of their data being used as training data for Meta’s upcoming AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
To make the intervention work across many different settings, multinational working groups included representatives from every participating country.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Especially charming are the objects from more personal settings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
He snapped the back of the camera shut and chose the appropriate shutter and aperture settings, which controlled the amount of light the film would be exposed to.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
