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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
The final season will explore Shaka’s enemies trying to undermine his rule and the arrival of Francis Fynn and British colonizers.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
From migrants and colonizers to gossip and war, Emily Wilson examines The Aeneid and its relevance to the modern world.
—tumblr.com, 11 Oct. 2025
As a hotbed of resistance against its British colonizers, Bengal’s freedom struggle was fought as much with ideas as with weapons.
—Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
So, when Spanish colonizers arrived in Mexico, All Saints’ and Souls’ days collided with the original Aztec holiday, and Día de los Muertos was born.
—Sarah Buder, AFAR Media, 8 Oct. 2025
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
From migrants and colonizers to gossip and war, Emily Wilson examines The Aeneid and its relevance to the modern world.
—tumblr.com, 11 Oct. 2025
As a hotbed of resistance against its British colonizers, Bengal’s freedom struggle was fought as much with ideas as with weapons.
—Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
So, when Spanish colonizers arrived in Mexico, All Saints’ and Souls’ days collided with the original Aztec holiday, and Día de los Muertos was born.
—Sarah Buder, AFAR Media, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonizer
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Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16-year-old Palestinian-American from Palm Bay, Florida, was arrested by Israeli forces in February 2025 after being accused of throwing rocks at Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.—
Jeremy Diamond,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Afrikaners, who are descendants of primarily Dutch colonial settlers who arrived in South Africa in the 1600s, governed the country from 1948 to 1994 and imposed racial separation laws known as apartheid.—
Annika Neklason,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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The transformation reinforces our position as a pioneer in the region’s retail and leisure landscape.—
Ritu Upadhyay,
Footwear News,
28 Oct. 2025
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National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum Located downtown, the National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum dives deep into the region’s economic history, with exhibits that cover mining culture, pioneer life, Indigenous history, and period photographs from the region.—
Karthika Gupta,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Oct. 2025
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The story, historically told from the white pilgrim's perspective, is that colonists shared a meal with the indigenous Wampanoag people to give thanks for a successful fall harvest.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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The story, historically told from the white pilgrim's perspective, is that colonists shared a meal with the indigenous Wampanoag people to give thanks for a successful fall harvest.—
Kaycee Sloan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
28 Oct. 2025
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In less than a decade, Cabral united more than a million Guineans in the struggle against Portuguese colonial rule, liberating three-quarters of the countryside of Guinea-Bissau and inspiring other African nations to rebel and claim their independence.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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The hotel’s 142 rooms and suites are designed with a dark-wood and light-linen look—sort of Scandi meets Spanish colonial.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Colonizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonizer. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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