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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
Anti-Palestinian violence by extremist settlers has become a near-daily occurrence in the West Bank.
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Tim Lister and Eugenia Yosef, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
Due to a lack of hedgehogs, the settlers began using another hibernating mammal: the groundhog.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
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
Several days later, dozens of settlers conducted an attack in the Palestinian village of Funduk in the West Bank.
—Barak Ravid, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
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Tim Lister and Eugenia Yosef, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
Due to a lack of hedgehogs, the settlers began using another hibernating mammal: the groundhog.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
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
Several days later, dozens of settlers conducted an attack in the Palestinian village of Funduk in the West Bank.
—Barak Ravid, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler
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Visual effects, animation and gaming pioneer Alberto Menache received the Ub Iwerks Award for technical achievement.—
Terry Flores,
Variety,
9 Feb. 2025
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Manifest destiny plays its part, too, as the struggle between enterprising pioneers and tragic, courageous native tribes ignites nostalgia, at least in some, for a time when Americans were unapologetic conquerors.—
Michael M. Rosen,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Feb. 2025
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Migrant workers represent a significant portion of those employed in the construction sector: according to the most recent American Community Survey, the share of immigrants in construction was 25.5 percent in 2023, up from 24.7 percent the year before—the highest percentage on record.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
9 Feb. 2025
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Still, polls have shown rising voter unease with migration and crimes committed by immigrants.—
Jim Tankersley,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2025
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Hot, wet, insect-ridden, and with a climate that made early colonists exceptionally susceptible to disease, the islands became the center of an idea formulated in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Dec. 2024
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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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Inside the vans, officers found 26 migrants from China.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
16 Feb. 2025
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David Marquez, the group’s social protection coordinator, told CNN that around 300 Venezuelan migrants with HIV cannot continue their treatment as it was run with PEPFAR support.—
Hira Humayun,
CNN,
16 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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As a representative of the U.N., any involvement in a group that promotes discrimination or violence violates the principle of neutrality and gravely jeopardizes UNRWA’s ability to provide services and protection to refugees.—
Rachel Wolf,
Fox News,
14 Feb. 2025
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His plan has been welcomed by Israel, but vehemently rejected by Palestinians and Arab countries which have refused to accept any influx of refugees.—
Julia Frankel,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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