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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
Trump’s order specifically referred to Afrikaners, descendants of mainly Dutch colonial settlers who arrived in South Africa in the 1600s and controlled the country from 1948 to 1994 through the racial separation laws known as apartheid.
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Brian Bennett, Time, 12 May 2025
Kashmiris greeted Modi’s decision with protests, claiming that his real goal was to inundate the state with Hindu settlers.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, a Black man known as the city’s first non-native settler, sold his properties in Chicago.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
In the 18th century, the Boston Tea Party helped tip the nation permanently toward coffee, and Scotch-Irish settlers kick-started American potato growing in New Hampshire.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
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Brian Bennett, Time, 12 May 2025
Kashmiris greeted Modi’s decision with protests, claiming that his real goal was to inundate the state with Hindu settlers.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, a Black man known as the city’s first non-native settler, sold his properties in Chicago.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
In the 18th century, the Boston Tea Party helped tip the nation permanently toward coffee, and Scotch-Irish settlers kick-started American potato growing in New Hampshire.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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One of the pioneers of the English-only movement was Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, a naturalized American who was born in Canada, to Japanese parents, in 1906.—
Graciela Mochkofsky,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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The Oscar-winning artist last trod the boards 10 years ago, portraying DNA pioneer scientist Rosalind Franklin in Anna Ziegler’s play Photograph 51, directed by Michael Grandage.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
19 May 2025
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From the Chinese laborers who built the railroads, to the Cuban refugees who revitalized Miami, to the undocumented parents who clean our hospitals and grow our food, immigrants and their children are not outsiders to the American story.—
Vilerka Bilbao,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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The Supreme Court on Friday granted a preliminary injunction that extends a pause on deportations of Venezuelan immigrants in Texas under the Alien Enemies Act.—
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán,
NPR,
16 May 2025
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Virginia is recognized as the birthplace of American wine, since colonists attempted the craft in the early 17th century.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
4 Apr. 2025
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The seeds that burst into the formation of a new country were planted as early as 1760 when Boston became the center of patriotic zeal and resistance to what some colonists felt was unfair treatment by the government of British King George III.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
23 Mar. 2025
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McIver's prosecution follows last month's arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, who is accused of helping a migrant evade arrest by ICE agents.—
Sonam Sheth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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The Trump administration is seeking to end an immigration policy cornerstone that since the 1990s has offered protections to child migrants in federal custody, a move that will be challenged by advocates, according to a court filing Thursday.—
Valerie Gonzalez,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, there were some 143,000 Ivorian emigrants living in France in 2020.—
Christopher Clark,
The Dial,
13 May 2025
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The tradition came from the legacy of a Dane emigrant named Max Henius, who corralled his friends to buy land and gift it to the crown in order to fete the links between his original and adopted countries.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
8 May 2025
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This story has been updated to reflect the shooting incident occurred near the Jenin refugee camp, not within the camp.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
22 May 2025
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Erdogan said a committee had been formed to work out what to do with the prisoners, particularly women and children held at refugee camps such as Al-Hol in northern Syria.—
Andrew Wilks,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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