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settler

noun as in pioneer

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The settler issue may complicate the loan-guarantee schedule if the ’67 lines are even retrievable.

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White’s taxonomy of New Yorkers: the natives, the commuters and the settlers who are “born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.”

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That made them vulnerable to the mammals that arrived with European settlers in the 19th century.

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The Germans forced survivors into concentration camps, seizing their lands for the state and selling vast tracts to white settlers at heavily subsidized rates, according to historians and researchers.

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Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition relies on the support of ultra nationalist extremists who thought they were close to their dream of expelling Gaza's Palestinians and replacing them with Jewish settlers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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