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"seated" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often sat (3 letters).
Definitions
(of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks
Used in a sentence
“... but she was very conscious, too, of her Saturday-morning appearance - of her blouse, which she'd once unpicked and refashioned in an attempt at 'make-do and mend', and her old tweed skirt, rather seated at the back.”
“There was a rush-seated chair with a hole in the seat, — and that […] seemed to be all that the room contained.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Sitting”6 letters
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