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colonial

[kuh-loh-nee-uhl] / kəˈloʊ ni əl /


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King Charles III will acknowledge the "darkest days" of colonial rule and slavery while touring Caribbean countries on a visit beginning this month, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

He and Nieuwenhuijsen delved deeper into the Sablonière archive as well as historic archives of the Society of Berbice—a colonial commercial entity similar to the Dutch West India Company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

New geopolitical realities seemed possible—the demise of the European colonial order, the rise of the U.S. as a superpower and the transformation of Asia into a region of nation-states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Experts were amazed the site was intact, as previous discoveries had found looted and destroyed remains from the colonial era.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

As a result, Dobyns said, all colonial population estimates were too low.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The Singhs sold clocks and watches to the colonials while secretly rebelling against British rule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

Proponents of prohibition argued that drinking culture was alien to India – while that’s debatable, the colonials filled their coffers with the liquor tax and certainly encouraged it.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025

The houses — in a mix of styles including split-levels and Dutch colonials — are on quarter-acre lots surrounded by mature trees and shrubs.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022

In western and southern 22207, new construction is beginning to overtake the postwar ranches, colonials, and split-levels built in the first wave of suburbanization.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2020

He despised those American colonials who had fought against his England, yet he still chose to settle in Philadelphia, where he set up a royalist newspaper called The Porcupine's Gazette.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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