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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
Anyone who has been to the West Bank and seen how Israeli security forces and settlers operate and often abuse the Palestinian population will quickly understand why Palestinians are so opposed (and often violently so) to Israel’s presence there.
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Ben Wedeman, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
As the diplomats in New York recognized, contrary to the claims of Smotrich—and some left-wing critics who have unwittingly accepted his framing—the presence of settlers is not an existential threat to the possibility of territorial compromise.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
Those settlers managed to make an underground river with murderous maggots on unstable terrain into a tourist attraction in record time.
—Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
The Natchez Trace Parkway, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee The Natchez Trace is 444 miles of rolling scenic road through the heart of the South that follows the original trading route established by Native Americans and later adopted by European settlers.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 26 Sep. 2025
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Ben Wedeman, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
As the diplomats in New York recognized, contrary to the claims of Smotrich—and some left-wing critics who have unwittingly accepted his framing—the presence of settlers is not an existential threat to the possibility of territorial compromise.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
Those settlers managed to make an underground river with murderous maggots on unstable terrain into a tourist attraction in record time.
—Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
The Natchez Trace Parkway, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee The Natchez Trace is 444 miles of rolling scenic road through the heart of the South that follows the original trading route established by Native Americans and later adopted by European settlers.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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France and Nordic countries, pioneers in subsidized childcare and paid parental leave, maintain relatively higher fertility than peers.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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French smart telescope pioneer Vaonis helps quench my thirst with a special edition of its flagship that puts the inner workings on view.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025
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Democrats have called the claims a lie, noting that undocumented immigrants aren’t eligible for payments from Medicare, Medicaid, or the Affordable Care Act.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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The journalists were among 15 people arrested during the July 17 demonstration held in support of Imam Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian immigrant and former Cincinnati Children's chaplain who was detained by ICE several days before.—
Quinlan Bentley,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
2 Oct. 2025
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Pairing apple pie and cheddar cheese is an American tradition that began with English colonists and persists today in the Northeast and Midwest.—
Staff Author,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Sep. 2025
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The black goo helped bring about the end of the Engineers; the xenomorphs, the end of various colonist human groups; and now the Lost Boys are wrenching the world from their adult overlords.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
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European migrants brought festivals such as Samhain and other observances of mortality to North America.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Sino-Mexican trade has boomed in recent years, and China last year became the third-biggest source of migrants to Mexico.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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An article in The Guardian in May 2025 reported that a record number of emigrants left New Zealand in 2023 and 2024.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 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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But Republicans have argued that the Biden administration abused the immigration parole system, as well as granted asylum and refugee status to immigrants who should not have received it.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
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Their presence puts migrant and refugee families at greater risk and spreads fear throughout our communities.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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