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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
New Mexico traces its deeply Hispanic identity to the arrival of Spanish settlers 400-plus years ago.
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John Burnett, NPR, 7 June 2025
However, the revelation of a second bacterium puts that theory of blaming the settlers on its head, as an existing strain was already on the continents calling the New World home.
—Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
But European settlers and trappers killed off most of the big cats living in the eastern two-thirds of the continent.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
Biden’s sanctions on some West Bank settlers were eliminated.
—Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2025
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John Burnett, NPR, 7 June 2025
However, the revelation of a second bacterium puts that theory of blaming the settlers on its head, as an existing strain was already on the continents calling the New World home.
—Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
But European settlers and trappers killed off most of the big cats living in the eastern two-thirds of the continent.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
Biden’s sanctions on some West Bank settlers were eliminated.
—Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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The Mughal Empire’s hunger for land taxes, for instance, drove an assault on eastern India’s forests in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which redistributed land to pioneer cultivators willing to undertake that work of settlement.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Additional investors include Fred Moll, the cofounder of Intuitive Surgical and pioneer of robotic surgery, who has joined the company’s strategic advisory board.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Yet my parents, both Indian immigrants, knew few Sikh boys in the United States who had been raised with long hair.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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About 24% of Houston’s population are immigrants, according to Census Bureau data.—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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The community’s festive send-off identifies this as an important rite of passage, though the gatekeeper reminds Spike that no rescuers or search parties will be sent after colonists that fail to return.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
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For most white Americans, and especially enslavers, the white colonists of Saint Domingue experiencing these changes were a focus of racial empathy.—
Time,
Time,
9 June 2025
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The remainder include both lawful residents and unauthorized migrants.—
Sara Chernikoff,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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The department said their TPS protections would lapse on Sept. 2. Created by Congress in 1990, TPS allows the federal government to offer migrants work permits and a reprieve from deportation if their home countries are engulfed in a crisis, such as a war or an environmental disaster.—
June 27,
CBS News,
27 June 2025
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Americans still hoping to move to Portugal, meanwhile, might be wise to see if their preferred neighborhoods are already too saturated with fellow emigrants or tourists.—
Michael Bartiromo,
The Hill,
14 June 2025
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Many Albanian emigrants — including from the U.S. — have returned to ride the tourism wave.—
The Dial,
The Dial,
12 June 2025
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And the Afghan refugees in Pakistan have no real rights to protect them.—
Ruchi Kumar,
NPR,
28 June 2025
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The terms of the peace deal signed on Friday call for both countries to end support for non-state groups, the return of refugees, and the creation of a joint security coordination mechanism aimed at resolving disputes.—
Shannon K. Kingston,
ABC News,
27 June 2025
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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