How to Use the dust settles in a Sentence
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When the dust settles on 2024, how many of these unicorns will be left?
—Chuck Todd, NBC News, 20 July 2023
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Marvel will find a new release for it once the dust settles from the strikes.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
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When the dust settles, Torres looks down to see a shiv sticking out of his side.
—EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
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Per pound, the Elan may look fairly expensive when the dust settles.
—Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 16 July 2023
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Is there any one sensible story to be told when the dust settles?
—Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
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As the dust settles on the devastation in the north of the prefecture, the next step for this part of Japan is to look forward, and tourism plays a vital part in this.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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In fact, by the time the dust settles, crypto may well represent a fraud at least ten times bigger than Madoff.
—Steve Larsen, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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Biding your time could be the right strategy as the dust settles on each decision.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 3 May 2023
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But what becomes of the women whose names remain as the butt of jokes and lives left the source of speculation long after the dust settles on rap’s war grounds?
—Rivea Ruff, Essence, 7 May 2024
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Our goal is to not worry about what the record is, take each game one game at a time and focus all our energy on that game and, when the dust settles, look back and see where that gets you.
—Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 25 Aug. 2023
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Because Mercury is still retrograde, hold off on acting on those choices right away—see how the dust settles over the next two weeks.
—Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2023
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Before the dust settles, the private equity firm sells and leaves town, leaving communities to pick up the pieces.
—Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2023
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Nevertheless, once the dust settles later in the day, your afternoon and evening will be quite agreeable.
—Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 17 May 2024
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Once the dust settles, all stakeholders will temper the angst around the situation, and a semblance of normalcy will return to air travel.
—Sheldon Jacobson, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
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Behind closed doors, executives are looking at the same issues and preparing for more widespread changes before the dust settles.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 11 July 2023
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The cast has continued to navigate their friendships and relationships on and off camera in real time while the dust settles from Scandoval, even at BravoCon.
—Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2023
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Now, however, most bosses are planning on ditching those happy medium hybrid policies once the dust settles, according to new research.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
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When the dust settles, a new chapter begins for the original people of these latitudes, the implication seems to be that now Maianui considers peace a viable option because of Munro’s persistence.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
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After the dust settles, religious communities find a way to carry on and accommodate new technologies.
—Ingrid Ahlgren, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2023
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People do sometimes work their way back to accepting and enjoying their parenting relationship once the dust settles, and an honest, healthy and positive relationship with your child’s grandparents might help Tony to accept his child.
—Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
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Once the dust settles, Russia will almost certainly remain an authoritarian country.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
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