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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
Israeli authorities have a mixed relationship with settlers, at times dismantling unauthorized outposts while also deploying forces to protect them from Palestinians.
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Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
Shows may incorporate some other Polynesian traditions, but still tie it back to Hawaii, like how the Old Lahaina Luau opens with a Tahitian dance to represent the Polynesian settlers who arrived in the Hawaiian archipelago.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
Before the settlement in Oklahoma, the area was used by Plains Indians as a winter campsite and also became part of the California Road, used by settlers to gather fresh water and repair their wagons.
—Isa Almeida, Oklahoman, 15 Jan. 2026
The Fort Lauderdale Community Redevelopment Agency says Sistrunk’s earliest settlers migrated from Georgia, South Carolina and the Bahamas in the late 1800s.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
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Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
Shows may incorporate some other Polynesian traditions, but still tie it back to Hawaii, like how the Old Lahaina Luau opens with a Tahitian dance to represent the Polynesian settlers who arrived in the Hawaiian archipelago.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
Before the settlement in Oklahoma, the area was used by Plains Indians as a winter campsite and also became part of the California Road, used by settlers to gather fresh water and repair their wagons.
—Isa Almeida, Oklahoman, 15 Jan. 2026
The Fort Lauderdale Community Redevelopment Agency says Sistrunk’s earliest settlers migrated from Georgia, South Carolina and the Bahamas in the late 1800s.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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His father, Carl Reiner, was a legendary pioneer in television who created the iconic 1960s comedy, The Dick Van Dyke Show.—
Steve Futterman,
NPR,
7 Jan. 2026
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Chua is often credited as one of the pioneers of modern mixology in Singapore.—
Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Jan. 2026
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By the early 20th century, Japanese immigrants opened restaurants, beauty salons, grocery stores, hotels, and other businesses in lower downtown Denver.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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The National Immigration Law Center fights in courts and legislatures to protect low-income immigrants, ensuring that civil rights don’t disappear simply because of where someone was born.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Historically, it was meant to remedy something that was true in England, where the colonists came from, which was that the king or those empowered by the king could invade people’s homes at will.—
John E. Jones,
Fortune,
23 Jan. 2026
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If these nanotubes are already there, future lunar colonists might not need to bring expensive sensors or battery components from Earth.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Jan. 2026
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Sandweg also said the Border Patrol has no business operating in a city like Minneapolis because their training is geared more toward encountering drug cartels and migrants along the border.—
Anna Schecter,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Spain plans to grant 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status, bucking a trend among many Western nations that are cracking down on immigration.—
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28 Jan. 2026
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The hotel was underwritten by the local banana-growing elite as well as by Canarian emigrants who had made their fortunes in the Americas.—
Javier Montes,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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New Jersey completes the bottom five, with an emigrant leaving approximately every 14 minutes and 14 seconds, according to the report.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Dec. 2025
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Lots of small, family-owned and run Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Chinese refugee businesses there, alongside a long-standing Greek restaurant and a German restaurant with an urban legend about being haunted, and now, some Latinx businesses, a Jamaican restaurant, a Somali restaurant.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Turkish officials have expressed concern that intervention in Iran could spark instability or trigger a refugee influx.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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