as in settler
a person who settles in a new region
the first colonizers of Easter Island must have faced untold challenges
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Recent Examples of colonizer
As colonizers moved west, P. annua followed with them both by design and by accident.
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Ian Rose, JSTOR Daily, 26 Feb. 2025
There is something heartbreaking in Toby’s precious title being such a cliché—a fantasy inherited from a colonizer state, a dream of the limitations of its own reach and harm.
—Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
Its goals were to create a system amongst those within the African diaspora to formulate their own economy and social system that needed neither the approval nor interference of European colonizers.
—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
That Haitians pulled off the world’s largest and most successful slave revolt against French colonizers to achieve their freedom?
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Ian Rose, JSTOR Daily, 26 Feb. 2025
There is something heartbreaking in Toby’s precious title being such a cliché—a fantasy inherited from a colonizer state, a dream of the limitations of its own reach and harm.
—Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
Its goals were to create a system amongst those within the African diaspora to formulate their own economy and social system that needed neither the approval nor interference of European colonizers.
—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
That Haitians pulled off the world’s largest and most successful slave revolt against French colonizers to achieve their freedom?
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonizer
Noun
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My life is still at the mercy of the settlers and the occupation.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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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
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The early pioneer in self-driving technology, Waymo has managed to beat Elon Musk-led Tesla and a myriad of now-defunct autonomous vehicle startups to the U.S. market.—
Lora Kolodny,Jennifer Elias,
CNBC,
24 Apr. 2025
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All this is to say that the longest in the world may have actually taken place in the woods, where more skiers than ever are now skimming the backcountry meltwater all spring long—just like the Slush Cup pioneers, Cyril Paris and Cliff White.—
Anna Fiorentino,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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Correspondent Mo Rocca explores the dramatic events of that fateful day 250 years ago; and hears from reenactors about why the colonists' ideals still hold true today.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2025
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Now, that all began to change in 1774 when the conflict between the colonists and Britain began to heat up.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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Located at 25 West Hills Drive, a quiet cul-de-sac in Avon, this colonial has undeniable curb appeal enhanced by a central front door that is recessed for protection from the weather and defined by pilasters on either side.—
James Alexander,
Hartford Courant,
20 Apr. 2025
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McKinley, after all, presided over America’s 1898 emergence as a colonial empire.—
Robert W. Merry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Colonizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonizer. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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