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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Collins went on to join another funk pioneer: George Clinton, whose alternating bands Parliament and Funkadelic were innovating a looser, more improvisational and funnier style that would help define Black music in the ’70s.—
Steve Knopper,
Billboard,
9 Apr. 2025
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It’s been sweet watching the sound expand overseas, the seeds of inspo traveling way further than the pioneers intended.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
9 Apr. 2025
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Dunmore’s suspicion of the colonists, on the other hand, had not.—
Andrew Lawler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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Founded by British colonists in 1733, Savannah blends British and French influences.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
29 Mar. 2025
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McKinley, after all, presided over America’s 1898 emergence as a colonial empire.—
Robert W. Merry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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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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“Colonizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonizer. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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