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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
In the wake of the conflict, settler violence in the West Bank has risen.
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
My life is still at the mercy of the settlers and the occupation.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
The district and town are named for the Massapequa Tribe that lived on Long Island before European settlers arrived in the 1600s.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025
Manifest destiny is the belief, which was particularly widespread in 1800s America, that US settlers were destined to expand westward across North America.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2025
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
My life is still at the mercy of the settlers and the occupation.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
The district and town are named for the Massapequa Tribe that lived on Long Island before European settlers arrived in the 1600s.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025
Manifest destiny is the belief, which was particularly widespread in 1800s America, that US settlers were destined to expand westward across North America.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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And Dana Walden was sort of a pioneer both at Fox’s studio and then at the network of things that were edgy.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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Choose from the Legends Tee, which honors Black pioneers of skateboarding with six black-and-white, high-contrast action shots, or the Wheels Tee, an homage to skateboarders’ determination and grit.—
Alia Yee Noll,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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Federal prosecutors charged him with a single felony, of an undocumented immigrant possessing a gun.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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More than 66,000 undocumented immigrants were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first 100 days in office, the agency announced Tuesday; that’s nearly half the number arrested by ICE during the entire 2024 fiscal year.—
Stephanie Elam,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
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Daniel: George Washington isn’t the only Southern colonist who opposed the British monarchy on this issue.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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Gage also miscalculated on the matter of disarming the colonists.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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Despite border crossings being down, Trump invoked the 1798 wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants his administration alleged to be gang members, affording them little to no due process.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2025
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For instance, 17 people were charged in 2024 for taking part in protests or demonstrations in support of irregular migrants, without apparently having any direct contact with them.—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Read: Hong Kong is self-destructing Since 2019, more than 5,000 emigrants have moved to the South London borough of Sutton, where a local group organized a camp in 2023 to educate children of the Hong Kong diaspora about Chinese repression.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 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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Hundreds of Vietnamese refugees from San Diego and Orange counties attended the ceremony, and many were joined by their children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Apr. 2025
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What might destroy our society is not immigrants or refugees or Palestinians or women seeking abortions or trans people or any of the other assorted others that have been posited as undermining American society.—
Viet Thanh Nguyễn,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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