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as in pioneer
a person who settles in a new region
settlers learning to live in peace with the natives
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as in immigrant
one that leaves one place to settle in another
in 1889 Jane Addams, in an effort to provide Chicago's latest wave of settlers with much-needed services, founded the city's first settlement house
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Recent Examples of settler
Controlled at different periods by Chinese, Indians, Portuguese, and Dutch settlers, the city boasts red brick houses typical of the Netherlands, a number of Portuguese buildings, and mosques and temples representing its Chinese and Malay past.
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Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 15 Feb. 2026
It is mentioned in Narragansett Indian sachems Canonicus and Miantonomo’s 1637 deed of Providence to English settler Roger Williams, and became a city park in 1903.
—Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 14 Feb. 2026
Civil rights groups said that basing a deportation law on Palestinian Authority payments effectively excluded Jewish Israelis, including settlers convicted of attacks against Palestinians, from the threat of losing their citizenship, as the statute targeted people of a certain race.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
The desolation of the desert scared off many settlers at the time, leaving Arizona less populated for quite a while.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 13 Feb. 2026
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Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 15 Feb. 2026
It is mentioned in Narragansett Indian sachems Canonicus and Miantonomo’s 1637 deed of Providence to English settler Roger Williams, and became a city park in 1903.
—Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 14 Feb. 2026
Civil rights groups said that basing a deportation law on Palestinian Authority payments effectively excluded Jewish Israelis, including settlers convicted of attacks against Palestinians, from the threat of losing their citizenship, as the statute targeted people of a certain race.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
The desolation of the desert scared off many settlers at the time, leaving Arizona less populated for quite a while.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 13 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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Rowe and Mark May were presenters, while Rowe, a pioneer in women's sports broadcasting, interviewed all the nominees in her charming and entertaining way.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
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While many potential topics were considered and may yet become exhibits themselves in the near future, press and print emerged as an early favorite due to the unique nature of the pioneer-era objects in our collection.—
Michael James Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
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Federal agents arrested more than 4,000 undocumented immigrants from the beginning of the operation on December 1 through February 4, according to the Department of Homeland Security.—
Yahya Salem,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Also, please tell me what your job is and how you were affected by the influx of immigrants.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2026
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The American colonists’ decision to frame their rebellion as a quarrel with a man rather than a system was brilliant from a public-relations standpoint, if not exactly honest.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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The colonists were subject to arbitrary taxation, warrantless searches, standing armies in their homes, and other evils at the hands of the crown.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
15 Feb. 2026
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Some are migrants, carrying passport stamps or refugee status, but crossing international borders is incidental to—rather than definitive of—what invisible exile means.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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Between July 2023 and June 2024, Wisconsin saw about 19,300 international migrants and about 5,800 domestic migrants move to the state.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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The city’s Hadhramis are descendants of the emigrants from Yemen’s Hadhramout region who began settling in Johor in the 1800s.—
Jeff Chu,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026
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Malinin is the son of two former Olympic skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, Russian emigrants who competed for Uzbekistan but came to Virginia in 1998.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
1 Feb. 2026
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Vietnamese refugees who arrived in the 1970s and 80s transformed a stretch of run-down shops into a vibrant commercial district, and their children entered Oklahoma’s mainstream as judges, physicians, attorneys and business owners.—
Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
18 Feb. 2026
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Biden-era sponsorship of immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela also allowed more legal immigrants, and Milwaukee in particular became a hub for Burmese refugees from Myanmar.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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