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as in headquarters
a place from which authority is exercised
all applications had to be submitted at the county seat for proper processing
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as in bum
the part of the body upon which someone sits
fell down on his well-padded seat
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as in center
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
a capital that is the seat of culture for the whole nation
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as in to induct
to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies
one of the first appointments that he made after being seated as president of the state senate
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Recent Examples of seat
Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
Brady gets them settled in their seats, then goes on a lemonade run — everyone at this wedding is seriously obsessed with lemonade — and Brie corners him and demands to know what's up.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Ora then called out her husband, Oscar winner Taika Waititi, who was also seated in the audience.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Meanwhile, on the Senate floor, outgoing members who were either retiring or had lost their seats gave farewell speeches.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
Brady gets them settled in their seats, then goes on a lemonade run — everyone at this wedding is seriously obsessed with lemonade — and Brie corners him and demands to know what's up.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
Advertisement The movie plays like spending time with an old friend: Thomas seated in an armchair in his apartment in Santa Monica, reminiscing.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Ora then called out her husband, Oscar winner Taika Waititi, who was also seated in the audience.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seat
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This was all done with a bum wrist, which posed as an inconvenience to him at times.Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
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Tommy, left to prosecute the case against Rusty, has inherited a bum gig.Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
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Virginia Highland Books is in the center of beautiful, historic Virginia-Highlands, located on the corner of Virginia and N. Highland Avenues.American Booksellers Association, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
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Most recipes recommend an oven temperature of 250 degrees for the first several hours of cooking or about 3 1/2 to 4 hours for a bone-in roast, or until the roast reaches 115-120 degrees in the center, depending on the size of the roast.Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024
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But sitting between them and the Panthers are five teams with 3-12 records, all from the AFC: New England, Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland and Las Vegas.Joseph Person, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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Learning to sit with and really feel those urges will pay off in the long run too.Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
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Over two years later, Akins was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in November 2021.Emily Weaver, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Eno was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 as a member of Roxy Music.Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Dec. 2024
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McGowan is hidden among other travelers on the platform, and Bonnie can be seen looking into the face of each one eagerly, her ears perked up and her tail starting to wag as McGowan gets closer, the dog possibly picking up on her scent.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Other than being four-legged and having a long tail, the gorgonopsian wouldn’t have looked very doglike, Angielczyk said.Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
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Lakehouses are rapidly becoming the hub for building advanced intelligence, providing a foundation for analytics and model training.Evan Kaplan, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Join in the fun and stay just 10 minutes away from the musical hub at Floyd Family Campground, which is outfitted with premium and primitive tent sites and dry (without utilities) and full hookup RV sites.Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
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Trump is due to be inaugurated as U.S. president on January 20, with the crypto industry betting on him issuing a flurry of executive orders and directives—though if these fail to materialize, the bitcoin price could plummet.Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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The country inaugurated a former soccer star who is a conservative critic of the West as president. Ukraine: As Russia encroaches further on the country’s east, a branch of the police is evacuating those who remain — mostly people who are older, disabled or poor — from the front lines.Natasha Frost, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!Clement Clarke Moore, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
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His cheeks were hollow, and a grizzled beard, which hadn’t seen a proper shave in weeks, made his face look older and all the more haggard.Lee Chang-dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Seat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seat. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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