settlers

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There has been a surge in attacks by settlers since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, the UN has recorded.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

The Israeli army later said it had intervened to confiscate digging tools from the settlers and to avoid further tension.

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

Hildy and Prentisstown and russets and sheep and settlers and leaky pipe and Hildy.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness