resettle
verb
re·set·tle
(ˌ)rē-ˈse-tᵊl 
resettled; resettling
1
transitive
: to settle (someone or something) again or anew
especially
: to move (people) to a new place to live
efforts to resettle refugees
2
intransitive
: to become settled again or anew (as after disturbance or upheaval)
The family resettled in the United States.
resettlement
noun
plural resettlements
the resettlement of refugees
a resettlement program
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Image Since 2008, about 85,000 Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees have resettled in the United States and now live in cities like Pittsburgh, Columbus, Ohio, and Rochester, N.Y.
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Amy Qin, New York Times, 1 June 2024
Congolese residents are currently the second fastest-growing population of immigrants in Louisville, behind Cubans, with nearly 3,000 people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo resettling here between 2018 and 2022, according to the Kentucky Office for Refugees.
—Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 23 May 2024
Helping Ukrainian refugees resettle will be good for the future of Ukraine.
—Dany Bahar, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2022
But the partition was deeply painful, marked by a violent and traumatic division based largely on religious lines, with Hindus and Sikhs migrating to India and Muslims resettling in Pakistan.
—M. Fahad Humayun, The Conversation, 5 June 2024
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Amy Qin, New York Times, 1 June 2024
Congolese residents are currently the second fastest-growing population of immigrants in Louisville, behind Cubans, with nearly 3,000 people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo resettling here between 2018 and 2022, according to the Kentucky Office for Refugees.
—Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 23 May 2024
Helping Ukrainian refugees resettle will be good for the future of Ukraine.
—Dany Bahar, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2022
But the partition was deeply painful, marked by a violent and traumatic division based largely on religious lines, with Hindus and Sikhs migrating to India and Muslims resettling in Pakistan.
—M. Fahad Humayun, The Conversation, 5 June 2024
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“Resettle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resettle. Accessed 30 Jun. 2024.
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