as in relocating
to move from one place to another
The couple grew tired of the harsh winters and ultimately decided to resettle down South in their retirement.
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Recent Examples of resettling
After resettling in Los Angeles, Motown producer Hal Davis started recruiting him for sessions.
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
This means that some refugees remain loyal to him, even after resettling following tremendous hardship in their journeys.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Many tribal members were displaced and forced westward, eventually resettling in Wisconsin.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 11 Mar. 2026
So said George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher who was a star Harvard professor before resettling in Europe and becoming an influential public intellectual.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
Johnson is an author and former USAID (United States Agency for International Development) coordinator who assisted in the reconstruction of Fallujah in Iraq, and the founder of the List Project, a charity resettling Iraqis who assisted the allies in the war.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
That’s a position rooted in Egypt’s vehement opposition to Palestinian refugees permanently resettling in the country.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
In recent years, the issue of resettling Afghans has become politically fraught, and application processing has slowed, leaving thousands of vulnerable people in limbo in third countries like Pakistan.
—Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 27 Nov. 2025
Amos Yadlin, former head of IDF Military Intelligence, reiterated that resettling Gaza is not part of the Israeli government’s declared war objectives.
—Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
This means that some refugees remain loyal to him, even after resettling following tremendous hardship in their journeys.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Many tribal members were displaced and forced westward, eventually resettling in Wisconsin.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 11 Mar. 2026
So said George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher who was a star Harvard professor before resettling in Europe and becoming an influential public intellectual.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
Johnson is an author and former USAID (United States Agency for International Development) coordinator who assisted in the reconstruction of Fallujah in Iraq, and the founder of the List Project, a charity resettling Iraqis who assisted the allies in the war.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
That’s a position rooted in Egypt’s vehement opposition to Palestinian refugees permanently resettling in the country.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
In recent years, the issue of resettling Afghans has become politically fraught, and application processing has slowed, leaving thousands of vulnerable people in limbo in third countries like Pakistan.
—Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 27 Nov. 2025
Amos Yadlin, former head of IDF Military Intelligence, reiterated that resettling Gaza is not part of the Israeli government’s declared war objectives.
—Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for resettling
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But all that extra work of closing off a building, safely relocating the colony, and sanitizing absolutely everything is worth it to save the bats, right?—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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But many of them might have already found that relocating to some countries, or obtaining a second passport in these places, has become harder over the last couple of years as these have tightened residency and descent rules.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Eventually his mother followed, migrating legally to take care of her son.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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Its characters are a small band of migrating reindeer herders.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Resettling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resettling. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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