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
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
After the war ended in 1783, American settlers resisted oversight by both the Confederation and, after 1789, the Constitutional government under President Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The first homes in Prentisstown, see, were made from the ships the original settlers landed in.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
