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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
Israeli forces moved in shortly after Trump rescinded sanctions against Jewish extremists and settlers accused of violence against Palestinians.
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Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
The operation comes amid sharply rising tensions in the West Bank, as the militants have grown in power and settler violence against Palestinian civilians has soared.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
Sheridan reportedly has a long-running desire to adapt the book that tells the story of the battles between the Comanche tribe and white settlers in America's West.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
Due to a lack of hedgehogs, the settlers began using another hibernating mammal: The groundhog.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
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Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
The operation comes amid sharply rising tensions in the West Bank, as the militants have grown in power and settler violence against Palestinian civilians has soared.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
Sheridan reportedly has a long-running desire to adapt the book that tells the story of the battles between the Comanche tribe and white settlers in America's West.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
Due to a lack of hedgehogs, the settlers began using another hibernating mammal: The groundhog.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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Leading the charge is Brandon Marshall, the six-time Pro Bowler and media pioneer, who is kicking off the project on his YouTube channel.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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New Village Arts explores the private life of famed scientist Marie Curie in new play The first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the discoverer of radium and polonium, Marie Curie is one of scientific history’s pioneers.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Jan. 2025
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His parents, immigrants from Argentina, moved from Eagle Rock to Altadena in the 1970s after finding a home large enough for them and their seven children.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2025
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Trump took office last week, immediately signing executive orders and directing federal agencies to begin following up on his campaign promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.—
Caelyn Pender,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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Still, many colonists had not seriously considered separating from the mother country—until a history-making pamphlet was published in the City of Brotherly Love on January 10, 1776.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Jan. 2025
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Recommended for European travelers and colonists heading to the East in the late 1800s, quinine was initially added to various alcoholic beverages to mask its bitterness.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
23 Dec. 2024
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In Spring, a brutal Immigration Removal Centre is described in distressing detail—but Smith also imagines a kind of underground railroad for migrants anxious to avoid the authorities.—
Adam Begley,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
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Invoking the act would let soldiers arrest migrants – something soldiers are currently forbidden from doing.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025
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In the massacre, settlers of the LDS Church involved in a territorial militia killed 120 American western emigrants.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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When a wagon train of emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California passed through the area, Mormon militiamen surrounded the group and brutally slaughtered more than 100 men, women, and children.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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The plight of Palestinian refugees offers a cautionary tale.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
3 Feb. 2025
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Funding for United Nations agencies, including peacekeeping, human rights and refugee agencies, have been traditional targets for Republican administrations to cut.—
Ellen Knickmeyer and Meg Kinnard,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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