as in settler
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
Its goals were to create a system amongst those within the African diaspora to formulate their own economy and social system that needed neither the approval nor interference of European colonizers.
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Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
That Haitians pulled off the world’s largest and most successful slave revolt against French colonizers to achieve their freedom?
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Sheep’s wool followed soon thereafter, with British colonizers confiscating huge tracts of land from Māori and clearing it for grazing.
—Anthony Byrt, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Cassia, the Santa Monica restaurant ‘colonizing the colonizers,’ is set to close in February.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
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Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
That Haitians pulled off the world’s largest and most successful slave revolt against French colonizers to achieve their freedom?
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Sheep’s wool followed soon thereafter, with British colonizers confiscating huge tracts of land from Māori and clearing it for grazing.
—Anthony Byrt, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Cassia, the Santa Monica restaurant ‘colonizing the colonizers,’ is set to close in February.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonizer
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Four settlers then kick and beat him before running away.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Mar. 2025
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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
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Chun made his fortune as a crypto pioneer, co-founding F2Pool, once the world's largest bitcoin mining company.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 Apr. 2025
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As a pioneer in the space, Thompson feels the weight of representation.—
Tira Urquhart,
Essence,
31 Mar. 2025
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In 1776, when King George tried to seize illegitimate control over the colonists by taxing them without their consent, the citizenry launched the American Revolutionary War.—
David McGrath,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Mar. 2025
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French colonists established Fort Rosalie near present-day Natchez, Mississippi, in 1716 as a trading post and seat of government.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Nov. 2024
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Concrete retains its temperature, heat or cold air, better than her previous standard colonial, Feekings said.—
Diana Olick,
CNBC,
12 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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“Colonizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonizer. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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