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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
Intent on preventing the north from rising again, the colonizers undertook a policy of transplanting Protestant farmers from England and Scotland onto northern lands.
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Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2024
The people with the oldest, best claim on this land are Indigenous communities including the Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone, each of which has its own strategies for surviving the influx of colonizers.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
Its colonizers have made their home in the seaside neighborhood’s rocks, terraces, beaches and caves.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
In part owing to this wild abundance, Bougainville and its neighboring isles have enticed a succession of fair-skinned cads, colonizers, and crazies.
—Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2024
The people with the oldest, best claim on this land are Indigenous communities including the Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone, each of which has its own strategies for surviving the influx of colonizers.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
Its colonizers have made their home in the seaside neighborhood’s rocks, terraces, beaches and caves.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
In part owing to this wild abundance, Bougainville and its neighboring isles have enticed a succession of fair-skinned cads, colonizers, and crazies.
—Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonizer
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Due to a lack of hedgehogs, the settlers began using another hibernating mammal: the groundhog.—
Julia Gomez,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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Violence has grown in the West Bank; settlers are out of control, even as President Donald Trump has lifted sanctions on them; and there is more talk of annexation of the West Bank by Israel, which would most likely mean denying Palestinians democratic rights.—
Nicholas Kristof,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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Leading the charge is Brandon Marshall, the six-time Pro Bowler and media pioneer, who is kicking off the project on his YouTube channel.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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New Village Arts explores the private life of famed scientist Marie Curie in new play The first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the discoverer of radium and polonium, Marie Curie is one of scientific history’s pioneers.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Jan. 2025
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Still, many colonists had not seriously considered separating from the mother country—until a history-making pamphlet was published in the City of Brotherly Love on January 10, 1776.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Jan. 2025
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Recommended for European travelers and colonists heading to the East in the late 1800s, quinine was initially added to various alcoholic beverages to mask its bitterness.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
23 Dec. 2024
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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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