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a person who settles in a new region
the first colonizers of Easter Island must have faced untold challenges
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Recent Examples of colonizer
Never before, though, has a president had such a close relationship with a would-be Mars colonizer, one who has transformed the world of rocketry.
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Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 13 Feb. 2025
About 200 years ago, British colonizers brought Malaiyaha Tamils’ ancestors from southern India to work on the rainy, wet tea plantations.
—Zinara Rathnayake, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2025
The promise of salvation from Portuguese colonizers, and a life with jobs and housing for all, was an easy sell in a southern African nation that was suffering under racist rule.
—Tavares Cebola, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Like tomatoes, corn was completely new to European colonizers, who quickly took to the concoction.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
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Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 13 Feb. 2025
About 200 years ago, British colonizers brought Malaiyaha Tamils’ ancestors from southern India to work on the rainy, wet tea plantations.
—Zinara Rathnayake, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2025
The promise of salvation from Portuguese colonizers, and a life with jobs and housing for all, was an easy sell in a southern African nation that was suffering under racist rule.
—Tavares Cebola, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Like tomatoes, corn was completely new to European colonizers, who quickly took to the concoction.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonizer
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Viewers see the local playground being torn down, the killing of Adra’s brother by Israeli soldiers, and other attacks by Jewish settlers while the community tries to survive.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN,
3 Mar. 2025
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Evitts Homesite Trail Overlooking Lake Habeeb is Evitts Mountain, named for one of the first European settlers in Allegany County.—
Trudy Haywood Saunders,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Mar. 2025
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In a March 7, 2025, X/Twitter post, early Bitcoin pioneer Charlie Shrem reflected on the momentous shift in policy.—
Tonya M. Evans,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Throughout his career, Ayers established himself as a pioneer of jazz-funk and was largely influential on the neo-soul movement.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2025
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In the 1750s and 1760s, British troops forcibly removed French colonists from Acadia in Nova Scotia and recruited thousands of Colonists from neighboring New England to move north.—
G. Patrick O'Brien,
The Conversation,
3 Mar. 2025
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This is the violent sleight of hand of the colonist, the oppressor.—
Christine Winter,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
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Long periods of rule by Portuguese, Dutch, and finally British colonial occupiers were only fully concluded in 1965, when the Maldives became an Islamic sultanate, albeit one not initially included in the British Commonwealth.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Jan. 2025
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In fact, Americans have been cultivating it since the colonial era, when it was traded on the Philadelphia commodity exchange at the same price as gold.—
Jane Black,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Colonizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonizer. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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