seated

past tense of seat
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as in sat
to cause to sit down the usher seated them in the third row

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as in inducted
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 seated Mangione was wearing the signature blue surgical mask the shooter was wearing in New York City surveillance footage and seated at the back of the restaurant using a laptop, the Altoona Police Department complaint added. Michael Loria, The Courier-Journal, 10 Dec. 2024 Each seat’s term runs five years, regardless of when members are seated. Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Dec. 2024 Judge Wiley swivelled in his leather chair toward the sixteen jurors seated in his jury box. Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024 His lawyers embraced one another while seated at counsel table. Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2024 Alana opens up to Derrick about how her two sets of grandparents first met after purchasing Chiefs season tickets and being seated next to each other at Arrowhead Stadium. Erin Clack, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024 They were seated in the middle of the plane, even Jokic. Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 8 Dec. 2024 Any which way, front bucket and rear bucket-style seats comfortably seated a party of four occupants. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024 Popular on Variety Rankin is calling from his native Winnipeg, seated next to his two friends and co-writers, Ila Firouzabadi and Pirouz Nemati. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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  • Cold temperatures did not stop two dogs in Colorado from fetching two tennis balls that sat perfectly on top of a lake.
    Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In the 2023 World Baseball Classic, his fastball sat 100 mph.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • Cleveland inducted him into the franchise Hall of Fame in 2006.
    Zack Meisel, The Athletic, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The Daily Pennsylvanian—Penn’s student newspaper—reported that Mangione founded the school’s Game Research and Development Environment club and that he was inducted into the Eta Kappa Nu honor society for excellence in electrical and computer engineering before graduating in 2020.
    Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • He was nominated and approved by the Senate in 2019, and stepped aside shortly after Biden was inaugurated in 2021.
    Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Earlier this year, Kyiv had officially inaugurated its Unmanned Systems Forces (USF), the nation’s first-of-its-kind armed forces branch.
    Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Dec. 2024

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“Seated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seated. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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