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as in pioneer
a person who settles in a new region
settlers learning to live in peace with the natives
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as in immigrant
one that leaves one place to settle in another
in 1889 Jane Addams, in an effort to provide Chicago's latest wave of settlers with much-needed services, founded the city's first settlement house
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Recent Examples of settler
After Missouri became a state in 1821, American settlers and French fur traders flocked to the region.
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Elijah Winkler, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2026
As a living agricultural museum, the garden collections include both native plants and edible plants that were brought over by Spanish settlers and adapted to the desert climate over hundreds of years.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 29 Mar. 2026
Now, 50 years later, about 750,000 Israeli settlers live illegally in the West Bank, according to Amnesty International.
—Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Today on the show: the Confederados, the American settlers who fled to Brazil chasing wealth, land, and a chance to keep slavery alive.
—Kyana Moghadam, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
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Elijah Winkler, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2026
As a living agricultural museum, the garden collections include both native plants and edible plants that were brought over by Spanish settlers and adapted to the desert climate over hundreds of years.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 29 Mar. 2026
Now, 50 years later, about 750,000 Israeli settlers live illegally in the West Bank, according to Amnesty International.
—Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Today on the show: the Confederados, the American settlers who fled to Brazil chasing wealth, land, and a chance to keep slavery alive.
—Kyana Moghadam, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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Long before federal regulations existed, the couple hosted the very first meeting to form the National Organic Standards Board right there at their ranch, gathering with other pioneers like the Lundberg family to create a unified standard.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Apollo's acquisition came after Verizon Communications bought Yahoo's online operations in 2017 and then bungled an attempt to blend those services into AOL, another internet pioneer.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Trump argues that guarantee wasn’t intended for the children of undocumented immigrants and temporary residents.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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But under the Florida and Oklahoma laws, any arrest could lead to DNA collection for immigrants subject to federal detainer requests.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 Mar. 2026
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The aiyi have sent an emissary to Scythia, who will determine whether the colonists deserve to survive.—
Stephanie Burt,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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The colonists awoke from their dream of lucrative plantations to find churches in ashes and molasses cauldrons rusting in the grass.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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Nineteen people were found dead and 58 rescued alive by the Italian coast guard, which intercepted a dinghy filled with migrants that was in distress about 80 nautical miles from the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Tuesday night.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who spoke relatively little, asked about immigration laws, enacted in 1940 and 1952, that accepted the common understanding that Wong Kim Ark had established birthright citizenship for the children of migrants, regardless of domicile.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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In the ‘70s and ‘80s, large numbers of Laotian and Hmong emigrants arrived, fleeing the persecution that followed the Vietnam War.—
David Farley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026
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The book looked at the world of Bad Bridgets, a swath of Irish women emigrants that were deemed troublemakers, noting that for a time Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Mar. 2026
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The change in eligibility requirements comes from federal policy updates barring certain asylees, refugees, parolees, individuals with deportation or removal withheld, conditional entrants and victims of trafficking from accessing Cal Fresh, according to the Department of Public Social Services.—
Michele Gile,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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The tightening of the reins in the British Mandate for Palestine comes as Adolf Hitler and Germany invade Poland, triggering the beginnings of World War II, and as Jewish refugees fleeing persecution begin entering the region.—
Zach Dennis,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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