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colonizer

noun

ˈkä-lə-ˌnī-zər

Definition of colonizer

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 Following the apple’s arrival with European colonizers, however, some apple maggot populations shifted to the new host plant. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026 The state also has a Mediterranean climate where invasive grasses, originally imported by European colonizers and their farm animals, flourish madly after winter rains and then die back during rainless summers. — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026 This kite, like all Palestinians, suddenly became an existential threat to the colonizers. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 The Guarani, which now number roughly 85,000 in Brazil, were among the Indigenous peoples first encountered by Portuguese colonizers in the 1500s. — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for colonizer

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The resulting wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, along with settler violence in the occupied West Bank, have stoked worldwide outrage, straining ties with Israel's closest allies and fueling a rise in antisemitism.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
Viewers will learn about the fragile alliance between the English settlers and the Wampanoag people, and the conflict that set the stage for the earliest foundations of American identity, according to FOX Nation.

— Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2026

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Like many of the pioneers who would go on to inspire the genre, Hysterical Love Project are resistant to being boxed in as trip-hop at all.

— Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 27 Oct. 2026
Economists have spent much of 2026 watching to see if the artificial intelligence bubble will burst, much like the boom-and-burn cycle of dot-com pioneer companies in the late 1990s.

— Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 26 Oct. 2026

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Both are works in that long tradition of castaways forced to survive, but in many ways, Crusoe—a colonist and capitalist and the later a jaundiced observer of the worst excesses of those systems—is the opposite of Gulliver.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
The original model for the kind of adversarial speech the First Amendment aims to protect, McGrane said, was the speech American colonists used against the British.

— Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of colonist

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The neighbors, who had till then lived in a conventional suburban setting — two-story colonials, wide lawns — were appalled.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2026
Directed by Yohane Dean Lengol and Hamed Mobasser, Rumba Royale is set in 1959 Leopoldville, the former capital of Belgian Congo (which is now called Kinshasa), in the final months of Belgian colonial rule.

— Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026

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