settlement
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"I want to thank the FDA for their assistance in reaching this settlement and I am looking forward to moving on to the next chapter of my life".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Sir Olly Robbins has reached an out-of-court settlement with the government, after he was sacked as the top civil servant in the Foreign Office over the vetting of Lord Mandelson to be US ambassador.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
The Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, was one of the world’s first proto-cities and thrived for more than a millennium, from roughly 7500 to 6000 B.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
To reconstruct Australia's Indigenous population before European settlement, the researchers brought together ethnographic observations, archaeological findings, genetic reconstructions, and computer models.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Although the reservation’s capital then seemed a small, squalid place—a “muddy little trading post,” as one visitor described it—it was likely the biggest settlement Mollie had ever seen.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
The university had long spent more than it brought in, driven by rising athletics costs, pandemic expenses and major legal settlements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
According to Ukrainian commanders, their year-long campaign has freed 16 settlements from Russian occupation.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
What he found during his excavations—8,000-year-old murals, statuettes of fertility goddesses and as many as 480 skeletons—revolutionized our understanding of early human settlements, demonstrating that Anatolia was at the center of the Neolithic Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Salih said that too often, what begins as a temporary solution for refugees becomes permanent, with children born in displacement settlements becoming adults there with children of their own.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
In the early colonial period, when settlements remained relatively small, indentured servitude was the dominant means of securing cheap labor.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing settlement
Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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The Middle East and Central Asia - Introductory
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