settlement
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Leeds are reported to have agreed a settlement with Everton in September 2025.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
She said that while targeted sanctions against individuals were "important" symbolically, they have "no impact on the rate of settlement expansion" or on "the scale of settlers' violence".
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Even the plaintiffs in the House settlement, which created the CSC, are in the process of challenging the current system.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
That case ground on for nearly a decade and ended with no admission of wrongdoing, though the settlement required the attorney general to pay $300,000 in restitution and undergo legal ethics training.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Very early on, the colonizers recognized that smallpox could easily wipe out an Indigenous population, leaving land available for settlement.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Vocabulary lists containing settlement
Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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The Middle East and Central Asia - Introductory
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