chiefly British

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Recent Examples of incomer Loeb also hopes to design—in collaboration with space agencies or companies--a launch-ready space mission to study an incomer at close quarters. Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 26 July 2021 In an overwhelmingly conservative state long dominated by the coal and timber industries, Fred Schaufeld wasn’t a typical corporate incomer. Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2020 But the idea that such privileges might be under threat from incomers, either Hindu or Muslim, has now made Assam fertile ground for the BJP’s anti-Muslim drum-beat. Joseph Allchin, The New York Review of Books, 6 Jan. 2020 Among the missiles in its launch tubes are some designed to shoot down incomers. The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019 Other projects, like rent control, are clearly magic carpets that won’t fly: with the best intentions in the world, all rent control does is to reward the incumbents and punish the incomers. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019 As for whether the potential incomer is married or single? Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2019 By 1964 the population had jumped to 7.44 million, with Uyghurs still in the majority at 54%, but the growth was largely driven by Han incomers, who now stood at 33% of the total. James Griffiths, CNN, 8 Aug. 2019 The news is certainly something of a respite for Arsenal fans, however, as the ever-reliable David Ornstein has stated that Unai Emery's side will pip late incomers Tottenham to the signing of AS Saint-Etienne centre half Saliba. SI.com, 17 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomer
Noun
  • See how much undocumented immigrants have paid in taxes.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Solvang Dupe for: Denmark Danish immigrants founded Solvang in 1911.
    Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Other states that received some of the highest interstate migrants were North Carolina (392,010), South Carolina (314,953), Arizona (252,654) and Tennessee (252,180).
    Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The results call into question a number of assumptions about Europeans’ attitudes to irregular migrants.
    Frey Lindsay, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Four settlers then kick and beat him before running away.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Unfortunately, one of its directors, Hamdan Ballal, reportedly was attacked by a group of the same Israeli settlers shown in the film about the West Bank destruction of homes by Israeli soldiers.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The motel, which is owned by his father and his uncle, emigrants from London, is not far from where Naran grew up, in Echo Park.
    Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The emigrants killed were traveling by wagon to California at the time.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025

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“Incomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomer. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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