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settler

[set-ler, -l-er] / ˈsɛt lər, -l ər /


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The UN documented more than 1,800 settler attacks in 2025 that resulted in casualties or damage to property, in around 280 communities across the West Bank.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

EU officials said that seven settlers or settler organisations would be sanctioned.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

But the recent surge has prompted criticism from influential rabbis, settler leaders and even military chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, who described the attacks as "morally and ethically unacceptable".

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Patriotic Iranian hero Babak Khorramdin, who led a nationalist movement against Arab settler colonialists in the ninth century, hailed from the Azeri city of Ardabil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

The situation in Algeria was the closest model to our own in that the rebels faced a large white settler community that ruled the indigenous majority.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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