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And Indonesia’s independence leader, Sukarno, welcomed the Japanese as they drove out or jailed Dutch colonial officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

When the 20th century dawned, nearly all of Asia was under the colonial boot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"We are very deferential to authority because we are colonial children," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The region concerned used to be part of the former Malay-Muslim Patani sultanate but was annexed in the early 1900s by Buddhist-majority Thailand -- then Siam -- following an agreement with colonial power Britain.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 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

Their seasoned troops, reinforced by Hessian mercenaries, faced an amateurish and poorly provisioned army of colonials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Stately, white colonials are on one block, while modest Spanish revivals sit on the next.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025

Developers opened up this part of Arlington in the 1950s, building ranches and colonials, working from the same three or four floor plans across a dozen square miles.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025

Year-round, elegant colonials and ramblers, with their classic details, red brick and stonework, grace Colonial Village in Northwest Washington.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2022

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