Thesaurus results for RESETTLING

resettling

verb

present participle of resettle

as in relocating

to move from one place to another The couple grew tired of the harsh winters and ultimately decided to resettle down South in their retirement.

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Recent Examples of resettling The family was among the victims of a scam targeting Haitians before resettling in Springfield. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2026 The family moved to Kyiv before school started in the fall, resettling in a block of apartments that had been hastily reserved for families like theirs, edging out others who had been languishing on the housing list. — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026 Catholic churches in Angola have played a central role in welcoming and resettling those crossing the 1,560-mile (2,511-kilometer) border between the two nations. — Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026 After resettling in Los Angeles, Motown producer Hal Davis started recruiting him for sessions. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026 This means that some refugees remain loyal to him, even after resettling following tremendous hardship in their journeys. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026 Many tribal members were displaced and forced westward, eventually resettling in Wisconsin. — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 11 Mar. 2026 So said George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher who was a star Harvard professor before resettling in Europe and becoming an influential public intellectual. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026 Johnson is an author and former USAID (United States Agency for International Development) coordinator who assisted in the reconstruction of Fallujah in Iraq, and the founder of the List Project, a charity resettling Iraqis who assisted the allies in the war. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026

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The family lived in Turner, Maine, before relocating to Buckfield.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
The prologue starts in 1986 in Newfoundland with a family relocating, uprooting their lives in the most all-encompassing of ways, taking their entire home — propped up on a barge and steered by a lone motorboat — across a bay.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

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