situated

verb

Definition of situatednext
past tense of situate
as in placed
to arrange something in a certain spot or position the new industrial complex is situated near the highway

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Recent Examples of situated The property is situated on a lot spanning 3,040 square feet. — Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 26 June 2026 This ancient Greco-Roman library was situated near Pompeii, just 11 miles from the base of Mount Vesuvius. — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 30 June 2026 It’s situated in downtown Sarasota near Sarasota Bay, putting you close to an array of restaurants and attractions like The Bay park and Selby Gardens. — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 30 June 2026 In its previous incarnation, the night club—the biggest of a handful of venues situated in an industrial zone near the edge of East Williamsburg—was known as the Brooklyn Mirage, and its reputation was not uniformly good. — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 The Bicester Collection’s 12 villages are open-air discount shopping destinations with restaurants and services, primarily situated in Europe, as well as China and North America. — David Moin, Footwear News, 29 June 2026 Visitors also planning to explore Yellowstone should consider Pacific Creek, frequented by wildlife and situated between the northern end of Grand Teton and Yellowstone's South Entrance. — Taryn Shorr-McKee, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026 Todays's offshore ships provide essential services for the offshore wind engines of the Hywind Tampen wind farm, situated between energy company Equinor's oil and gas fields Snorre and Gullfaks in the Norwegian North Sea off the coast of Bergen. — Heather Farmbrough, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Vineyards in Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG are situated north of Verona in a 20-mile-wide mountainous band at the foot of the Dolomites at altitudes ranging from 500 to 1,640 feet above sea level, with heights above 1,100 feet really making the difference. — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 28 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for situated
  1. placed
  2. located
  3. positioned
  4. put
  5. deposited
Verb
  • Crews have been seen unloading equipment from trucks this week — much of it covered or obscured — and barricades have been placed near the perimeter of the arena.
    — Meriam Bouarrouj, NBC news, 4 July 2026
  • An employee with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, has been placed under administrative leave after being arrested for allegedly driving under the influence.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026
Definition of placed
Verb
  • Hours later, as the bodies of the children were being handed over to their families, scenes of anguish unfolded outside hospitals and in the neighborhood on the outskirts of Lahore where the private tutoring center was located in a house.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • Troopers, assisted by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office and the Fort Worth Police Department, located the suspect nearby and took him into custody without incident.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2026
Definition of located
Verb
  • What could’ve happened had a ball been squared up, an outfielder been positioned differently or an umpire’s call flipped?
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • The Explorer, positioned between the Edge and Expedition, is Ford’s best-selling sport utility vehicle.
    — James Raia, Mercury News, 5 July 2026
Definition of positioned
Verb
  • In his fifth-inning at-bat, Stephenson was on the other side of two successful challenges by Rutschman that put him down 1-2 in the count instead of up 3-0.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 6 July 2026
  • Go on, put the 131-cube (2,147 cc) monster engine into that one.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 July 2026
Definition of put
Verb
  • The first batter Barnes faced, Jonah Heim, deposited a 444-foot home run on the roof of the Dodgers’ clubhouse beyond the center-field fence.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • He’s transported to a realm of Tolkienesque fantasy, deposited somewhere between the Stony Waste and the Frozen Sea.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Definition of deposited

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