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What does set in mean?

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  1. To take root, become established.
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Rather than being set in stone, the iron trough containing the canal is balanced on top of hundred-foot long, spindly legs.
Gogol came to have his name by accident, but that accident set in motion a series of events that would demarcate the history of a family.
Tosca is an opera in three acts set in Rome about 1800 at a time of revolution.
The local custom of apple-tree wassailing might be of interest to either group after its mention in the bestselling novel set in Herefordshire.
And then there's the repulsive triplewart seadevils, covered with spines and furrows and warts, their large mouths set in a perpetual frown.
But once the upper floors began to give way, terrible force was set in motion.

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