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
Rather than using the traditional Pais, the grape first brought by Spanish colonizers, Lapostolle makes its XO Pisco with Muscat from Limari and Elqui valleys that is distilled in a still from Cognac and aged for six years in French oak barrels.
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Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 9 May 2025
The colonizers in Vegas booed Bianca Belair more than ever during Belair’s attempt at a promo.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
To just show up, uninvited, and sit in the most visible region of your face is honestly giving colonizer energy.
—Essence Gant, Allure, 16 Apr. 2025
Freed from the selection pressures of their original environment—such as competitors, predators, or disease—successful colonizers could exploit new ecological opportunities, much like many invasive species that flourish in novel habitats.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
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Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 9 May 2025
The colonizers in Vegas booed Bianca Belair more than ever during Belair’s attempt at a promo.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
To just show up, uninvited, and sit in the most visible region of your face is honestly giving colonizer energy.
—Essence Gant, Allure, 16 Apr. 2025
Freed from the selection pressures of their original environment—such as competitors, predators, or disease—successful colonizers could exploit new ecological opportunities, much like many invasive species that flourish in novel habitats.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonizer
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Changing forests fueled tick risks During the 18th and 19th centuries, settlers cleared more than half the forested land across the northeastern U.S., cutting down forests for timber and to make way for farms, towns and mining operations.—
Sean Lawrence,
The Conversation,
18 June 2025
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Before European settlers arrived in California and insisted on suppressing fire at every turn, the landscape burned regularly.—
Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
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Additional investors include Fred Moll, the cofounder of Intuitive Surgical and pioneer of robotic surgery, who has joined the company’s strategic advisory board.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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The Mughal Empire’s hunger for land taxes, for instance, drove an assault on eastern India’s forests in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which redistributed land to pioneer cultivators willing to undertake that work of settlement.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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The community’s festive send-off identifies this as an important rite of passage, though the gatekeeper reminds Spike that no rescuers or search parties will be sent after colonists that fail to return.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
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For most white Americans, and especially enslavers, the white colonists of Saint Domingue experiencing these changes were a focus of racial empathy.—
Time,
Time,
9 June 2025
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The book explores the lives of hitherto unknown Black women in colonial and Revolutionary New England and examines how patriarchy and race conjoined to affect the lives of Black women in the north.—
Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
21 June 2025
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Slurp oysters at the Lewes Oyster House, a throwback to the 18th-century taverns that sprung up along the mid-Atlantic coast during colonial times.—
Tim Neville,
Travel + Leisure,
15 June 2025
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“Colonizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonizer. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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