resettle
verb
re·set·tle
(ˌ)rē-ˈse-tᵊl 
resettled; resettling
1
transitive
: to settle (someone or something) again or anew
especially
: to move (people) to a new place to live
efforts to resettle refugees
2
intransitive
: to become settled again or anew (as after disturbance or upheaval)
The family resettled in the United States.
resettlement
noun
plural resettlements
the resettlement of refugees
a resettlement program
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So far the State Department has resettled 88 South Africans under the program, including the initial group of 59 who arrived in May.
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Ted Hesson, USA Today, 26 July 2025
Only a few rare exceptions have been granted, such as to Afrikaners currently being resettled from South Africa.
—Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 June 2025
In their Laotian homeland, they were earmarked for destruction for having aided the U.S. side in the Vietnam War, and Minnesota became one of two states to help resettle the vast majority of those who escaped, California being the other.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 2 June 2025
In the final year of that term, the government resettled some eleven thousand refugees, the lowest amount, by a wide margin, in the program’s history.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 1 June 2025
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Ted Hesson, USA Today, 26 July 2025
Only a few rare exceptions have been granted, such as to Afrikaners currently being resettled from South Africa.
—Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 June 2025
In their Laotian homeland, they were earmarked for destruction for having aided the U.S. side in the Vietnam War, and Minnesota became one of two states to help resettle the vast majority of those who escaped, California being the other.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 2 June 2025
In the final year of that term, the government resettled some eleven thousand refugees, the lowest amount, by a wide margin, in the program’s history.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 1 June 2025
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“Resettle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resettle. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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