settled
/ˈsɛtl̩d/ adjective B1- Comfortable and at ease, especially after a period of change or unrest. · It took me a while to feel settled after I moved to this big city.
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When the ring was found, however, it settled the question.
In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London.
“If I were sole owner we’d shake hands on it now, my dear Dantès, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb—Chi ha compagno ha padrone—‘He who has a partner has a master.’ But the thing is at least half done, as you have one out of two votes.
There had been much doubt whether one would be allotted to Queen’s, but the matter was settled at last, and at the end of the year the graduate who made the highest mark in English and English Literature would win the scholarship--two hundred and fifty dollars a year for four years at Redmond College.
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