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homesteader

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Definition of homesteader

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a person who settles in a new region in the 1800s homesteaders in search of cheap land and a new life headed to the West in droves

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Recent Examples of homesteader Haushofer’s The Wall prompts readers to reflect on this question as an unnamed protagonist becomes a forced—though not unhappy—homesteader, cutoff from society by an invisible barrier. — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 17 July 2026 In the mid-19th century, a family of Dutch-Afrikaans homesteaders sets out to cross the inhospitable terrain of the Kalahari Desert along with their backer, a boorish Brit whose avarice and bigotry loom large over the journey. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2026 Luke Bracey and Crosby Fitzgerald star as Charles and Caroline Ingalls, homesteaders who move their family from Wisconsin to Kansas in the Western drama series. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2026 The area has a rich and compelling history, filled with legends, wars, and homesteaders long before 1939, when the land became part of the National Park Service. — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for homesteader

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In reality, decades of land abuse and exploitation left behind a scarred terrain uniquely prepared for the arrival of kudzu as a fast-growing pioneer plant.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026
The early quantum pioneers didn’t realize — at first — that the arcane math that strikingly captured the conduct of atoms had left the real world behind.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026

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Originally the homeland of the Ohlone Indians, the Mission was taken over by Spanish settlers in the 1700s and so named after the Catholic church at its center, now known as Mission Dolores.

— Marissa J. Lang, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026
Branly Cadet will research, design, and sculpt a bronze statue of du Sable, Chicago's first permanent non-native settler.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 24 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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