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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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Video Ad Feedback Indigenous lawmaker calls Queen Elizabeth II a colonizer during ceremony
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On Monday, protesters stood with an Aboriginal flag as the royal couple visited the Australian War Memorial.
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Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
When all one sees is colonized and colonizers, certain experiences register and others do not.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
People of European descent in New Caledonia distinguish between descendants of colonizers and descendants of the many prisoners sent to the territory by force.
—Barbara Surk, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
The colonizer, by virtue of his position, is responsible for any terror that might be visited upon him; his suffering, his humanity, can be ignored.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
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Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
When all one sees is colonized and colonizers, certain experiences register and others do not.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
People of European descent in New Caledonia distinguish between descendants of colonizers and descendants of the many prisoners sent to the territory by force.
—Barbara Surk, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
The colonizer, by virtue of his position, is responsible for any terror that might be visited upon him; his suffering, his humanity, can be ignored.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
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The connection between faith and gratitude The concept of gratitude is intertwined with faith, according to Rabbi Pinchas Taylor of Florida, who spoke about the early settlers expressing both sentiments.Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024
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Driving the news: The Shin Bet security agency has been using administrative detention in order not to expose its sensitive intelligence sources inside extremist Jewish settler groups.Barak Ravid, Axios, 23 Nov. 2024
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Gaylord Wilshire, as he was called, is better remembered today as a real estate developer and pioneer of billboard advertising.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
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Initiatives like Tokyo’s showcase how cities can shift from being major polluters to pioneers of green energy and resilience.Marianne Lehnis, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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The first colonists would encounter a barren landscape without water or breathable atmosphere, bathed in deadly solar and galactic radiation from which Earthbound humans are protected by our planet’s atmosphere and magnetic field.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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The birds have strutted the streets for hundreds of years, arriving in the 1600s with some of the earliest European colonists, according to the New York Public Library.Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
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Panama, after all, is only one of more than 90 financial secrecy… Caribbean Payback Caribbean nations are now determined to seek reparations from western European governments for centuries of slave trading and brutalizing colonial rule.Margaret Daly Hayes, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
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And much like the city itself, Boston’s top hotels effortlessly blend the colonial past with its cosmopolitan present.Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Colonizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonizer. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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