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[kol-uh-nist] / ˈkɒl ə nɪst /


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However, the researchers report their work revealed the "richness, abundance and composition" of the bee populations were "signficantly impacted by agricultural colonization after as little as 10-17 years of settlement by colonist farmers and ranchers."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

Pocahontas died several years later in March 1617 in Gravesend, England, while colonist John Rolfe died around March 1622, he added.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2023

It stands on the site where Samuel de Champlain, the French colonist and navigator who founded Quebec and New France, built a chapel in 1633.

From Reuters ● Jul. 28, 2022

A British colonist is sent to instigate a revolution on a Caribbean island instrumental to the sugar cane industry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2019

“Divine providence,” the colonist Daniel Gookin wrote, favored “the quiet and peaceable settlement of the English.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

One of the main reasons colonists rebelled against the crown was that they wanted more Indigenous land—they wanted to move farther west into North America, but the king was telling them no.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026

This view came from England “and crossed the Atlantic with the colonists — and was adopted with little fanfare after the Revolution,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The letter from the owner of the cargo, the East India Company, to the British government gives a breakdown of the tea destroyed on December 16, 1773 by American colonists.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

When the first shots of the Revolution were fired at Lexington, Mass., on April 19, 1775, most American colonists would not have said that they were fighting for independence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

On March 22, 1622, 347 colonists were killed—about one-third of the Virginia European population.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone


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