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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
Never before, though, has a president had such a close relationship with a would-be Mars colonizer, one who has transformed the world of rocketry.
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Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 13 Feb. 2025
About 200 years ago, British colonizers brought Malaiyaha Tamils’ ancestors from southern India to work on the rainy, wet tea plantations.
—Zinara Rathnayake, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2025
The promise of salvation from Portuguese colonizers, and a life with jobs and housing for all, was an easy sell in a southern African nation that was suffering under racist rule.
—Tavares Cebola, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Like tomatoes, corn was completely new to European colonizers, who quickly took to the concoction.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
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Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 13 Feb. 2025
About 200 years ago, British colonizers brought Malaiyaha Tamils’ ancestors from southern India to work on the rainy, wet tea plantations.
—Zinara Rathnayake, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2025
The promise of salvation from Portuguese colonizers, and a life with jobs and housing for all, was an easy sell in a southern African nation that was suffering under racist rule.
—Tavares Cebola, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Like tomatoes, corn was completely new to European colonizers, who quickly took to the concoction.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonizer
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The escalation comes as Secretary-General voiced alarm over rising violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.—
Amir Daftari,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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There was a spike of attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians, killing dozens.—
Mick Krever,
CNN,
24 Feb. 2025
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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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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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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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In fact, Americans have been cultivating it since the colonial era, when it was traded on the Philadelphia commodity exchange at the same price as gold.—
Jane Black,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Colonizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonizer. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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