colony
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Its first game against No. 14 Senegal — a longtime French colony — will be its toughest in group play.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
SpaceX’s plans, according to its recent regulatory filings, include asteroid mining and a colony on Mars.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Haiti became the first independent black nation in the Americas in 1804, after enslaved people rebelled against their French masters in what was then the colony of Saint-Domingue.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
Presumably Musk’s dreamed-of colony on Mars would have other job opportunities, too.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
In 1622, for example, a fleet of Dutch ships tried to seize the Portuguese colony of Maçao.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing colony
American History I
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Ancient Greece - Introductory
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The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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