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colonizers

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plural of colonizer

as in settlers

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 colonizers Built in 1610 by Spanish and Indigenous laborers, the church was destroyed in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt that drove Spanish colonizers out of the region for 12 years. — Dan Fellner, AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2026 In the British colonial holdings of the West Indies and American colonies, these slave-owning colonizers and plantation administrators were predominantly Protestant. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026 Smallpox began decimating Indigenous populations shortly after European colonizers arrived in the Americas during the late 15th century. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2026 Co-founder and tour guide Hannah Michelle Brower says the tour will be a historical journey exploring passenger pigeons and the Lenape people, as well as looking at how the arrival of European colonizers accelerated commercial exploitation and ultimately contributed to the extinction of the bird. — Terra Sullivan, CBS News, 29 June 2026 Dark visions and secrets quickly come to light, as Mārama grapples with her heritage in the shadow of colonizers. — William Earl, Variety, 26 June 2026 European colonizers in lands that became the United States did link church and state. — Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation, 24 June 2026 Later, colonizers cut down the trees to plant pineapple and sugarcane; the land dried out and became vulnerable to fire. — Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2026 In the past, thousands of the indigenous Great Andamanese people living in the region died after contact with British colonizers led to an epidemic of measles and syphilis. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 7 June 2026

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More than eleven hundred Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed either directly by settlers or by the Israeli security forces.

— David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Captured in the 1967 Middle East war, the West Bank is home to 3 million Palestinians and 500,000 Israeli settlers.

— F. Brinley Bruton, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026

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Digital dyeing is transforming how fashion gets its color, and one of the technology’s pioneers is now undergoing a transformation of its own.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
These platforms could simultaneously help the AI pioneers and power users in the operating forces learn and evolve more quickly.

— Emelia S. Probasco, Foreign Affairs, 20 Aug. 2026

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In his telling, the Lenape agreed to sell Dutch colonists only as much land on Manhattan as could be covered by a man’s breeches.

— Eric Lach, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
What happened to the colonists remains unknown, but archaeological finds—including otherwise anachronistic English artifacts on Hatteras Island—give some support to White’s theory that at least some of the colonists relocated willingly.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026

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