as in pioneer
a person who settles in a new region
in the 1800s homesteaders in search of cheap land and a new life headed to the West in droves
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Recent Examples of homesteader
Success comes for one neighborhood, a few buildings, one block here, a handful of urban homesteaders there.
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Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
Metsch, the disability-rights advocate, said her family has been in Colorado for nearly its entire history as a state, ever since her ancestors became homesteaders near Del Norte in the 1880s.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
Now, Utah homesteader and mother of eight Hannah Neeleman, whose social media handle Ballerina Farm is a household name, has a lifestyle brand, a staff of 60, and over 20 million followers.
—Judy Berman, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
That period also saw her star in Sergio Leone’s Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), as the female protagonist, widowed homesteader Jill Mcbain, alongside Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
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Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
Metsch, the disability-rights advocate, said her family has been in Colorado for nearly its entire history as a state, ever since her ancestors became homesteaders near Del Norte in the 1880s.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
Now, Utah homesteader and mother of eight Hannah Neeleman, whose social media handle Ballerina Farm is a household name, has a lifestyle brand, a staff of 60, and over 20 million followers.
—Judy Berman, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
That period also saw her star in Sergio Leone’s Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), as the female protagonist, widowed homesteader Jill Mcbain, alongside Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for homesteader
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Long before federal regulations existed, the couple hosted the very first meeting to form the National Organic Standards Board right there at their ranch, gathering with other pioneers like the Lundberg family to create a unified standard.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Apollo's acquisition came after Verizon Communications bought Yahoo's online operations in 2017 and then bungled an attempt to blend those services into AOL, another internet pioneer.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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But Union troops in Colorado were also responsible for forcing Indigenous people from their homes as white settlers moved into the state.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Bakri is more brittle in Farah Nabulsi’s The Teacher as Basem, a Palestinian teacher in the West Bank whose support for insurgents grows after his own son dies in prison and as Israeli settlers brutalize his neighborhood.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2026
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The colonists awoke from their dream of lucrative plantations to find churches in ashes and molasses cauldrons rusting in the grass.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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The Quebec Act, which protected Catholicism in neighboring Quebec, was seen by some colonists as a threat and is reflected in grievances in the Declaration of Independence.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Homesteader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homesteader. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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