Provide
Settle on
Settle on verb - Become fixed (on).
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- When asked the boy's name, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg provide separate answers, "Tom" and "John", but settle on "Tomjon".
Source: Stereo Fibbing - The original idea was to provide themselves with an interlocking net of alibis, such that guilt could never settle on any of them and it would be assumed that someone from outside the train did it.
Source: Everybody Did It
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