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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
The federal government, controlled mostly by the Republican Party, increasingly exerted its power in the West and provided incentives for white settlers to migrate to the region.
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Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Spring Valley Nature Preserve offers a dozen easy hiking trails through the forest and along Salt Run, a trickling creek that was used by early settlers for salt production.
—Midwest Living, 1 Apr. 2026
Tensions heightened as British settlers began fencing off land and hunting native wildlife, creating food shortages for the Bindjareb.
—Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
The law is considered to be the latest action by the nationalist-religious coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that has raised alarm among Israel’s allies who have been critical of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
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Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Spring Valley Nature Preserve offers a dozen easy hiking trails through the forest and along Salt Run, a trickling creek that was used by early settlers for salt production.
—Midwest Living, 1 Apr. 2026
Tensions heightened as British settlers began fencing off land and hunting native wildlife, creating food shortages for the Bindjareb.
—Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
The law is considered to be the latest action by the nationalist-religious coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that has raised alarm among Israel’s allies who have been critical of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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Close has said that sharing a UCLA championship with Meyers Drysdale and other pioneers who paved the way for her program would be special.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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In other words, the hybrid pioneer has finally grown up.—
Sponsored Content,
Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2026
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LoRe, a Sicilian immigrant, had spent most of his life working as a butcher in New York City and running a shop there before relocating to the Charlotte area.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Apr. 2026
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This year, only 16% of immigrants who applied to diagnostic radiology programs secured a spot.—
Michal Ruprecht,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026
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Portugal and Germany in Southern Africa For much of the 19th century, Portuguese colonists in Angola and Mozambique were fewer in number and weaker in authority than those in the interior of South Africa.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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The early colonists were very much anti-idol worshippers and even modern Catholics, as Vice President Vance surely knows, have long been criticized by their Protestant counterparts for a love of statuary, reliquaries and other iconography that some have argued fall into idolatry.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Researchers speculate that the builders may have been strangers to the area—possibly migrants from what is now Latvia, whose low rampart structures are similar to this one—who found themselves in conflict with local communities.—
Anne Doran,
ARTnews.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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The tiny island of Lampedusa is the main entry point to Europe for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa, with thousands dying during the perilous journey.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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In the ‘70s and ‘80s, large numbers of Laotian and Hmong emigrants arrived, fleeing the persecution that followed the Vietnam War.—
David Farley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026
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The book looked at the world of Bad Bridgets, a swath of Irish women emigrants that were deemed troublemakers, noting that for a time Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Mar. 2026
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If the United States wants a safe, orderly refugee system, the answer is not collective blame, but sustained investment in policies that provide security, dignity and successful integration.—
Sediqa Fahimi,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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Stories abound in every survivor of the Rwandan genocide, every Hmong refugee who fled the Laotian Civil War, every Iranian trying to protect their families from American missiles.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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