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Recent Examples of squatter
Toss in a missing daughter-in-law, mysterious land-squatter (Imogen Poots), and the scary thing that happens when someone jumps in the hole, and Abbott quickly has more on his hands than stray cows.
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Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Apr. 2026
Shah’s administration also faced criticism over attempts to clear squatter settlements along the Bagmati River and regulate informal street vending.
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Ethan Teekah,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
According to Micalizzi, the squatter was living in his yard for a couple of days.
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Michele Gile,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa has called Brugnara a squatter on the property.
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Brooke Park,
San Francisco Chronicle,
2 Feb. 2026
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Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Apr. 2026
Shah’s administration also faced criticism over attempts to clear squatter settlements along the Bagmati River and regulate informal street vending.
—
Ethan Teekah,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
According to Micalizzi, the squatter was living in his yard for a couple of days.
—
Michele Gile,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa has called Brugnara a squatter on the property.
—
Brooke Park,
San Francisco Chronicle,
2 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squatter
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The sultan learned about the American colonists’ war for independence indirectly, through the local French consul and European reports.
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Those groups, and more recent successors, drew on strains of conspiracy theory-minded thinking that go back to the American Revolution, when many colonists believed that a corrupt British elite was plotting to strip them of their traditional liberties.
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Torres lamented that the nation’s landmark semiquincentennial comes amid a fever pitch of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, marked by a rise in xenophobia and an onslaught of attempts to restrict newcomers here and abroad.
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Chevalier, a 32-year-old community activist and political newcomer, has drawn criticism for her past statements, including supporting abolishing prisons, borders and police.
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If an alien is ordered removed by an immigration judge, the same should happen.
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The new season will get around to that question, though the alien and earthly plot lines are kept on separate tracks.
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And yet, the endless stream of upbeat posts from foreigners has gone a long way in reframing the bigger picture.
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One of their recurring complaints is that authorities act more quickly when the missing people are foreigners.
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The Berliners are well known in the business world through Amy’s Kitchen, the organic-food pioneer that helped bring natural and vegetarian frozen meals into mainstream grocery aisles.
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German physicist Max Planck was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, earning the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of quanta.
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“Squatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squatter. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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