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as in pioneer
a person who settles in a new region
settlers learning to live in peace with the natives
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as in immigrant
one that leaves one place to settle in another
in 1889 Jane Addams, in an effort to provide Chicago's latest wave of settlers with much-needed services, founded the city's first settlement house
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Recent Examples of settler
Hundreds of new residents have moved in – amid gentrification, rising rents in nearby Halifax, and record low-vacancy rates across the Maritime Province – and the descendants of the original settlers own just 38% of the land.
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Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
Inside, several headstones commemorate the lives of some of the early settlers of the region.
—Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 12 Feb. 2025
Afrikaners are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers, who own most of the country's farmland.
—Reuters, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, between 1967 and 1979, far-right Israeli Jewish settlers established seven settlements in Gaza.
—Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2025
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Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
Inside, several headstones commemorate the lives of some of the early settlers of the region.
—Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 12 Feb. 2025
Afrikaners are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers, who own most of the country's farmland.
—Reuters, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, between 1967 and 1979, far-right Israeli Jewish settlers established seven settlements in Gaza.
—Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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William Arruda is a keynote speaker, author, and personal branding pioneer.—
William Arruda,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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In the mid-1960s Ralph opened Lucinda Byre, a boutique selling clothes from multiple brands, including miniskirt pioneer Mary Quant, in the center of Liverpool that later expanded across the North of England.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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President Donald Trump signed Wednesday an executive order aimed at cutting off undocumented immigrants from any federal benefits.—
Rachel Uranga,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), providing welfare benefits to one million undocumented immigrants could cost American taxpayers an additional $3 billion annually.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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In the film, Pattinson plays Mickey Barnes, a space colonist known as an expendable.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Feb. 2025
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The war was a final effort by Native American tribes to push back against European settlers, but the colonists won, securing their dominance over New England.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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Fewer judges mean longer wait times for migrants awaiting decisions on their cases.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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The link between migrants and violent crime is real.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
28 Feb. 2025
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The emigrants killed were traveling by wagon to California at the time.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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In the massacre, settlers of the LDS Church involved in a territorial militia killed 120 American western emigrants.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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But in 1941, Jewish refugees were rounded up into a ghetto.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2025
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In 2024, the European Union slashed its development fund by 7.5%, redirecting €2 billion toward refugee support.—
Daphne Ewing-Chow,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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