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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 colonizers
Furthermore, when colonizers attempted to burn all evidence of Nkrumah’s time as a revolutionary leader, Hesse snuck his reels out of Ghana, and into a London vault, where the footage has spent decades inside, waiting to be digitized.
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Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2025
Their culture and practices shaped the Southwestern part of this country, in spite of relentless attempts by white colonizers and settlers to erase them.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
The final season will explore Shaka’s enemies trying to undermine his rule and the arrival of Francis Fynn and British colonizers.
—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
Most of the microbes found were environmental or post-mortem colonizers.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
Gone are the days when sugar cane plantations blanketed much of the island of Puerto Rico, the port of San Juan sending sweeteners and spirits around the globe to the enrichment of its colonizers.
—Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2025
Their culture and practices shaped the Southwestern part of this country, in spite of relentless attempts by white colonizers and settlers to erase them.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
The final season will explore Shaka’s enemies trying to undermine his rule and the arrival of Francis Fynn and British colonizers.
—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
Most of the microbes found were environmental or post-mortem colonizers.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
Gone are the days when sugar cane plantations blanketed much of the island of Puerto Rico, the port of San Juan sending sweeteners and spirits around the globe to the enrichment of its colonizers.
—Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonizers
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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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This year’s festival is an expansion of the annual Apple Festival of past years, offering insights into the early history of the area, the pioneers who planted apple orchards, games, square dancing, food, music and crafts.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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For years, crypto in the United States was a largely theoretical project — a parallel financial system led by a community of extremely online pioneers, who believed the future of money lay in computer networks outside the control of governments or central banks.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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The show was inspired by the novel The Swiss Family Robinson, and Lockhart played the mother of a family of space colonists.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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The Beaver Moon takes its name from early Native American tribes as well as American colonists, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, when beavers begin sheltering in their lodges after gathering enough food to last the winter.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Colonizers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonizers. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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