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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
Another settler smashes his head with a rock, sending him to the ground.
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Arkansas Online, 29 Mar. 2025
Ballal, who is Palestinian, was injured in an attack by Israeli settlers on Susiya, a village in the region, and detained by the IDF, per March 24 reports.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Growth of an Industry Maple sugaring rose in popularity among European settlers throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
—Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 28 Mar. 2025
Ballal says he was severely beaten at the hands of Jewish settlers at his home on Monday, just outside the village of Susiya.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 29 Mar. 2025
Ballal, who is Palestinian, was injured in an attack by Israeli settlers on Susiya, a village in the region, and detained by the IDF, per March 24 reports.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Growth of an Industry Maple sugaring rose in popularity among European settlers throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
—Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 28 Mar. 2025
Ballal says he was severely beaten at the hands of Jewish settlers at his home on Monday, just outside the village of Susiya.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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Collins went on to join another funk pioneer: George Clinton, whose alternating bands Parliament and Funkadelic were innovating a looser, more improvisational and funnier style that would help define Black music in the ’70s.—
Steve Knopper,
Billboard,
9 Apr. 2025
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It’s been sweet watching the sound expand overseas, the seeds of inspo traveling way further than the pioneers intended.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
9 Apr. 2025
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Governor Ron DeSantis recently endorsed child labor as a fix for worker shortages caused by mass deportations and by a new state law criminalizing undocumented immigrants.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
22 Apr. 2025
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Children of immigrants attend local schools, and their parents work in every sector of the economy, including restaurants, transportation, construction, farming and ranching, hotels, resorts and hospitals.—
Benjamin Waddell,
Denver Post,
22 Apr. 2025
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Dunmore’s suspicion of the colonists, on the other hand, had not.—
Andrew Lawler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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Founded by British colonists in 1733, Savannah blends British and French influences.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
29 Mar. 2025
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Last week, top officials at the IRS, including its acting head, reportedly quit after the agency agreed to hand over migrants’ data to federal agents.—
Hayden Field,
CNBC,
15 Apr. 2025
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The program granted two-year entry to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.—
Elaine Mallon,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Apr. 2025
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In the massacre, settlers of the LDS Church involved in a territorial militia killed 120 American western emigrants.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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The emigrants killed were traveling by wagon to California at the time.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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Among them are World Relief Texas, a Christian humanitarian organization focused on aiding refugees and other immigrants; Catholic Charities Fort Worth; and the Junior League of Fort Worth’s MINTS program, which stands for Mentoring, Inspiring, Nurturing, Tutoring and Supporting.—
Lina Ruiz,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Apr. 2025
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In 1989, a racially motivated school shooting at Cleveland Elementary killed four Cambodian children and one of Vietnamese descent, all children of refugees.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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