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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
In a case that predated the Israel-Hamas war, the court said Israel abused its position as an occupying power and called on it to cease new settlement activity, evacuate settlers and make reparations for the damage caused.
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Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
While the war was at full tilt, Har-Melech’s minority settler faction had been able to exercise outsize influence over Netanyahu’s decision making, deepening Israel’s entanglement in Gaza.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
This marks the first attempt at bringing to the screen the fictional island of Catan — a place where settlers must navigate bountiful and varied landscapes, shifting alliances, and limited resources, while robbers roam the land.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
Based on the board game originally released as The Settlers of Catan, the upcoming projects will be the first adaptations to bring Catan — an island where settlers must navigate bountiful and varied landscapes, shifting alliances, and limited resources, while robbers roam the land — to life.
—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
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Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
While the war was at full tilt, Har-Melech’s minority settler faction had been able to exercise outsize influence over Netanyahu’s decision making, deepening Israel’s entanglement in Gaza.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
This marks the first attempt at bringing to the screen the fictional island of Catan — a place where settlers must navigate bountiful and varied landscapes, shifting alliances, and limited resources, while robbers roam the land.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
Based on the board game originally released as The Settlers of Catan, the upcoming projects will be the first adaptations to bring Catan — an island where settlers must navigate bountiful and varied landscapes, shifting alliances, and limited resources, while robbers roam the land — to life.
—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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The transformation reinforces our position as a pioneer in the region’s retail and leisure landscape.—
Ritu Upadhyay,
Footwear News,
28 Oct. 2025
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National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum Located downtown, the National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum dives deep into the region’s economic history, with exhibits that cover mining culture, pioneer life, Indigenous history, and period photographs from the region.—
Karthika Gupta,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Oct. 2025
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Elizondo is a child of Mexican immigrants and grew up in Oak Cliff in Dallas.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Oct. 2025
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Studies have also shown that high-skilled immigrants lead to more productivity without job displacement.—
Ben Zweig,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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The show was inspired by the novel The Swiss Family Robinson, and Lockhart played the mother of a family of space colonists.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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The Beaver Moon takes its name from early Native American tribes as well as American colonists, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, when beavers begin sheltering in their lodges after gathering enough food to last the winter.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
24 Oct. 2025
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At the weekly Miami vigils, the treatment of the migrants held across the street is often a topic of discussion.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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Most of these migrants were fisher-hunter-gatherers and belonged to numerous ethnic groups who left vital evidence of their presence in stones, burial sites, and artifacts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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But while many Israeli emigrants have embarked on new lives in Cyprus, Canada and Thailand, according to DellaPergola’s analysis, few are prepared to speak publicly, citing a mistrust of the media and fear of anti-Israel sentiment.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 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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Afghan refugees like him await their asylum decisions in an increasingly hostile climate marked by ICE raids and deportations.—
Vidushi Mishti Sharma,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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These include executive orders and regulatory changes to enforce immigration laws more strictly, pause or restrict refugee resettlement, reinstate rapid-expulsion policies like Title 42, expedite deportations, and increase border barrier construction.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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