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colonizers

noun

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 References to the Quit India movement against the country’s erstwhile British colonizers and the protests around the Emergency have become commonplace. — Asim Ali, Time, 24 Oct. 2026 Following the apple’s arrival with European colonizers, however, some apple maggot populations shifted to the new host plant. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026 The state also has a Mediterranean climate where invasive grasses, originally imported by European colonizers and their farm animals, flourish madly after winter rains and then die back during rainless summers. — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026 This kite, like all Palestinians, suddenly became an existential threat to the colonizers. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 The Guarani, which now number roughly 85,000 in Brazil, were among the Indigenous peoples first encountered by Portuguese colonizers in the 1500s. — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2026 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 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

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As explored in my recent book, this dialect formed from linguistic variation that came in with colonial-era settlers from different places and stations.

— Valerie M. Fridland, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
Israeli police have arrested 10 suspects in the occupied West Bank following attacks by Jewish settlers over the weekend in which a US journalist and European diplomats were among those injured.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 20 Oct. 2026

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From honoring industry pioneers with the Latin Music Legacy Award to bringing Tito Nieves and Luis Figueroa together to discuss the evolution of salsa, AARP was part of the conversations where culture, community and generations connect.

— Billboard Staff, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2026
But beyond icon status, Moncler praises its three leading ladies as pioneers.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026

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The original model for the kind of adversarial speech the First Amendment aims to protect, McGrane said, was the speech American colonists used against the British.

— Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 15 Oct. 2026
The animals reached Spain during the Roman Empire and were later brought to what is now Mexico by Spanish colonists in the 1500s.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

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