Keeps and Settles

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Settles and keeps are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Settles" instead a verb "Keeps".

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Keeps and settles are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keeps" instead a verb "Settles".

After going through many unusual and unsavoury applicants (including Deadpool, who keeps coming back), she settles for Storm.

Source: Terrible Interviewees Montage
In an Archie Comics "Gag Bag" strip, Archie's dad, Fred, is whittling down a piece of mahogany wood to make a table, but keeps screwing up and settles for something smaller.

Source: Trees into Toothpicks
Muffy auditions a long list of her other friends and acquaintances for the role of "best friend", but when she finally settles on a candidate, she keeps suggesting things she would do with Francine, only for Binky to be completely uninterested.

Source: Testing the Love Interest

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