seated

past tense of seat
1
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 With that being said we are seated for Lupita’s forthcoming stylish pursuits. Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 4 Oct. 2024 She was also seated in the front row of Louis Vuitton’s spring 2024 ready-to-wear show last October. Julia Teti, WWD, 4 Oct. 2024 In the final shot, Charli is pictured seated on set with a script in her hand. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024 The following slide saw her husband seated on a plane alongside two of their kids. Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024 The two moderators, Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan, will be seated and will be the only ones asking questions of the candidates. Kathryn Palmer, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024 In one of our more private conversations, he was seated behind his desk at Riverfront Stadium and looked up at me from under his red cap. Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2024
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  • Customers sat at tables for long stretches of time, eating course after course of unlimited shrimp.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Well, actually … On Thursday, Johnson sat two seats over from his new coach for a television interview about their team.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • Randy Owen of Alabama inducted Keith into the Country Music Hall of Fame, welcoming Keith’s wife nearly 40 years, Tricia, to the stage.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The Go-Gos will reunite three years after disbanding in 2022; they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the previous year.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
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  • Since the Foreign Malign Influence Center was inaugurated, the intelligence authorities have withheld even the name of the election-threats executive, making Brandt (or Haines) the face of any public notifications.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The Mellon Foundation, the US’s largest philanthropic organization devoted to the arts and humanities, has inaugurated a $25 million fund aimed at supporting arts organizations in the US-Mexico border region.
    News Desk, Artforum, 21 Oct. 2024

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“Seated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seated. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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