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as in colonists
a person who settles in a new region
settlers learning to live in peace with the natives
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as in immigrants
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 settlers
Even the most minimal challenges to Israel — such as sanctions on Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank who kill and harass Palestinians, or the brief suspension of 1-ton bombs being lobbed on Gazan population centers — have generated backlash from the Republican right wing.
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Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
The Abandons will follow settlers attempting to stake their claim in 1850s Oregon as a systemic power tries to force them out of the territory.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
The United Nations said around 630 Palestinians have also been killed by Israeli settlers and security forces in the West Bank over the past year, with 15 Israelis also killed.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024
Given free rein, settlers in the West Bank became increasingly violent toward Palestinians, culminating in several pogrom-like attacks on Palestinian villages.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
The Abandons will follow settlers attempting to stake their claim in 1850s Oregon as a systemic power tries to force them out of the territory.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
The United Nations said around 630 Palestinians have also been killed by Israeli settlers and security forces in the West Bank over the past year, with 15 Israelis also killed.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024
Given free rein, settlers in the West Bank became increasingly violent toward Palestinians, culminating in several pogrom-like attacks on Palestinian villages.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for settlers
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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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Elon Musk’s dumbest idea is to send human colonists to Mars, columnist Michael Hiltzik argues.Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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Troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) encountered the migrants among two large groups.Louis Casiano, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its annual threat assessment this week warning of migrants with terrorist ties.Louis Casiano, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024
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Local volunteers, who include refugees themselves, are doing the work that the outside world says should be done, and often better than any outsider could.Angelina Jolie, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
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Sophie Carson is a general assignment reporter who reports on religion and faith, immigrants and refugees and more.Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Settlers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settlers. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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