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settle in

verb
  1. To get comfortable or established, as in a new place. · I had just sat down in my favorite easy chair and settled in when the phone rang.· It took me several months to settle in after the move to New York.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see settle, in. · The colonists settled in Montreal.· She intended to settle in the practice of law.
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Thinking that I might wish to settle in France, he left me at his departure, together with the papers establishing my identity, a letter promising, if he approved of my choice, 150,000 livres per annum from the day I was married.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 824 · C1

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