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squatter

[skwot-er] / ˈskwɒt ər /
NOUN
colonist
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“At least I eat sometimes,” said Cedric Mnisi, 39, who lives in a squatter camp nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

She excelled on stage and screen in Alan Bennett’s “The Lady in the Van,” playing a crotchety squatter with an imperious sense of entitlement.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

This was a squatter camp outside Johannesburg in 1994 as South Africa prepared to vote in its first non-racial elections.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

The operation came days after police carried out a large-scale eviction at France’s biggest squatter camp in a suburb south of Paris.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2024

He had been approached by a man named Komo, who was representing a squatter camp outside of Johannesburg that the government was seeking to relocate.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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