colonial

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In comparing those statistics with those of its former colonial overlord, Hartnett, Bank of America’s chief equity strategist, found an emphatic stateside outperformance on almost all fronts.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 3, 2026

What is more accurate is that they didn’t want to be colonial subjects themselves but still wanted to be an empire.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2026

There was a bicentennial Barbie and a colonial Campbell’s Soup doll.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

Hainu, a vestige of the Japanese colonial era, shares some similarities with the centuries-old matriarchal tradition of haenyeo free-diving in South Korea, although Taiwan's sea women do not go underwater.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

When Europeans at last arrived, their technological and other advantages enabled them to establish temporary colonial domination over most of tropical Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond