settlers
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More images showed how Mohammed and his brothers then carried the shrouded body of their late father away from the cemetery and down the hill to relative safety under the watchful gaze of the settlers.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Historians estimate that before the arrival of large numbers of European settlers, roughly 50,000 grizzlies ranged across the American West.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Ford’s arrival in 1907 drew waves of German, Irish and Jewish settlers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
As Ms. Fridland explains, “most other settlers, whose ‘r’ arrived with them, kept their ‘r’s and passed them down to their descendants.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
We have too many settlers to feed, and yet hardly anyone is working to store food for the winter.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
