Due
Due adjective - Having reached the date at which payment is required.
Usage example: the loan is due next April
Settled
Settled adjective - Firmly established over time.
Both words in one sentence
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Settling the Frontier: The Manticore system has only been recently settled, and many of the original settlers died off due to a rampant disease that took very well to human biology.
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Despite defeating Armenia, Rome had no interest in annexing the country outright just yet (due to both how costly it would be and out of fear of raising neighboring Persia's ire) and settled for some territorial gains and taxation.
Source: Useful Notes / Armos with Armor -
Tolkien went back and forth on the matter repeatedly, and hadn't settled on a definitive version even when he died, mainly due to trying to reconcile his dislike of Always Chaotic Evil with his belief in Evil as inherently incapable of creativity.
Source: The Morlocks
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