resettling

present participle of resettle

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of resettling The family was among the victims of a scam targeting Haitians before resettling in Springfield. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2026 The family moved to Kyiv before school started in the fall, resettling in a block of apartments that had been hastily reserved for families like theirs, edging out others who had been languishing on the housing list. — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026 Catholic churches in Angola have played a central role in welcoming and resettling those crossing the 1,560-mile (2,511-kilometer) border between the two nations. — Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026 After resettling in Los Angeles, Motown producer Hal Davis started recruiting him for sessions. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026 This means that some refugees remain loyal to him, even after resettling following tremendous hardship in their journeys. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026 Many tribal members were displaced and forced westward, eventually resettling in Wisconsin. — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 11 Mar. 2026 So said George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher who was a star Harvard professor before resettling in Europe and becoming an influential public intellectual. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026 Johnson is an author and former USAID (United States Agency for International Development) coordinator who assisted in the reconstruction of Fallujah in Iraq, and the founder of the List Project, a charity resettling Iraqis who assisted the allies in the war. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for resettling
Verb
  • As a member of Laurence’s group LJE (Laurence Jones Ensemble), Jackson began playing clubs in New York before relocating west in the late ‘70s to join the California funk band Mystic Merlin.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Brooke Black was raised in Chicago and spent years in New York, London, and Los Angeles before relocating to Denmark.
    — Brooke Black, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • What to do about the daily pile-up Mail, keys and reusable bags have a way of migrating onto kitchen counters and staying there.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Ahern’s use case — the same lamps migrating from bathside to kitchen counter to summer garden — is the tell.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2026

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“Resettling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resettling. Accessed 8 Oct. 2026.

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