Definition of "settling" []

• Present participle of settle. (verb)
• Dregs; sediment. (noun)

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• "She carefully placed the phone back on its hook and then turned to Jesse, her expression settling into hard lines."
• "Every foreign player that comes into a league in Europe that's not their home league and there's what they call a settling in period,"
• "Then I came across this section entitled ‘The Perpetual Adolescent’ about men who (the book proposes) will have no interest in settling down until they hit forty, and whose lifestyle and perspective the book then described in intimate detail."