colony
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Davji Bhimji Atellah, KMPDU's secretary general, said the union "will not sit back and watch Kenya be treated as a containment colony for a lethal pathogen that we did not generate."
From BBC • May 29, 2026
But new research led by UCL scientists found that some wasps quietly step in to keep the colony functioning during the chaos.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
Mr. Musk in January was awarded one billion performance-based restricted shares that will vest if his company establishes a “permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million inhabitants.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The book beat out a story about a suburban witch by French novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye as well as Brazilian Ana Paula Maia's dystopian read about a brutal prison colony.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
When I first heard about the Roanoke colony disappearing, I wondered how it could have happened so quickly.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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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