Settle
Wind up
Wind up verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Both terms in one sentence
- Apparently, thousands of happy hunter-gatherers who all opt to settle down in one place, without otherwise changing their way of life, wind up surrounded by pleasant gardens, group singalongs, and dinosaur polo matches, not hunger, poverty or open sewers.
Source: Mary Suetopia
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